Windows which are marked transients of docks should be treated like docks

Bug #860397 reported by Neil J. Patel
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Compiz Core
Fix Released
High
Sam Spilsbury
Unity
Fix Released
High
Sam Spilsbury
compiz (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Sam Spilsbury
unity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

When we make windows transient of a dock window (say, input method on onscreen keyboard), that window should be treated like docks themselves for the purpose of stacking, so that they go above the dash and other dock windows which take input

Neil J. Patel (njpatel)
Changed in compiz-core:
assignee: nobody → Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz)
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in unity:
assignee: nobody → Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz)
importance: Undecided → High
milestone: none → 4.20.0
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in compiz-core:
milestone: none → 0.9.6
description: updated
Changed in compiz-core:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Changed in unity:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
David Barth (dbarth)
Changed in compiz (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Committed
importance: Undecided → High
assignee: nobody → Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz)
milestone: none → ubuntu-11.10
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package compiz - 1:0.9.6-0ubuntu1

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compiz (1:0.9.6-0ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

  * New upstream release 0.9.6:
   - Windows which are marked transients of docks should be treated like docks (LP: #860397)
   - Applications which create multiple windows that are transients of each other can be given invalid stack positions (LP: #858625)
   - race condition in configureXWindow causes unpredicatable window geometry changes (LP: #860304)
   - invisible window when a window is mapped but not yet drawn on by the process mapping it (LP: #860286)
   - resizing bugs with xterm (LP: #854725)
   - Cannot open a window that starts iconified (LP: #732997)
   - maximized windows fail to update their input extents when undecorated (LP: #853734)
   - Clicking on a tweet/message link sometimes does not work (LP: #790565)
   - crash on closing a window (LP: #856015)
   - Windows move to 0,0 on compiz restarts (LP: #858629)
   - windows that are decorated while resizing can cause incorrect resize results (LP: #860306)
   - remove transient window handling from unity-window-decorator (LP: #856096)
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:15:21 +0200

Changed in compiz (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in unity:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in compiz-core:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
importance: Undecided → High
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