Comment 11 for bug 848115

This bug is plaguing me very regularly in 11.10 on my laptop (Thinkpad T510). What's interesting is that it doesn't happen on my desktop PC, also running 11.10. Regardless, I suspect it's going to drive me to xfce, because it makes the desktop unusable. So far I haven't had a window lose focus while I was typing in it. Rather, for me happens frequently when unlocking the desktop, or switching between workspaces.

I can reproduce this problem consistently by having a workspace full of gnome-terminals, another workspace with Firefox, and then switching from the terminals workspace to Firefox. (I use a switch-to-workspace-<N> keyboard shortcut, but I've seen it with expose switching as well.) After switching, Firefox always loses focus, and I must click the desktop and click back to Firefox (or minimize/restore, or shade/unshade) to get focus back in Firefox. When I switch back to the terminals workspace, gnome-terminal has focus ok.

unity --reset did not fix the issue for me, but then after --reset I also restored the functionality I need, which is: sloppy focus (autoraise disabled), 6x1 virtual workspaces (with keybindings ctrl-alt-[1234qw]), set the keybinding on the scale plugin to ctrl-alt-r (toggle mode disabled).

At first I suspected sloppy focus, but even after returning to click-to-focus, the problem persists.