Minimize child windows with parent windows

Bug #231514 reported by shemgp
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
compiz (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Wishlist
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Bug Description

Using Ubuntu 8.04 LTS,
compiz: 1:0.7.4-0ubuntu6
update-manager: 1:0.87.27
openoffice.org: 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu6
firefox: 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3

When minimizing some applications, the child windows don't minimize with it. I expect that they should minimize too as that was the behavior in metacity & the previous compiz. Besides, it's kind of hard to figure out how to remove that child window from your screen, without closing it, because it doesn't have a minimize button. I did not see this behavior in Gutsy 7.10.

Example:
Open office:
1. launch OOo Word Processor
2. Press F11 to show styles
3. Minimize writer
4. Notice that the styles & formating child window is still there

Update manager:
1. launch update manager
2. click check
3. minimize update manager
4. Notice that the child window is still there

Firefox w/ compiz:
2. click Help->About
3. notice that it minimizes **both** the application and the about window.

Firefox w/o compiz but using metacity:
2. click Help->About
3. try to minimize Firefox and it minimizes it but the about window is still there. About window is unminimizable while it was when using compiz.

Thank you for working on this bug, in your free time =).

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shemgp (shemgp) wrote :
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shemgp (shemgp) wrote :
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Aanjhan Ranganathan (aanjhan) wrote :

Reproducible here too. In fact trying to close the child window (e.g. styles in OO) results in OOWriter maximising again.
Setting the bug to confirmed.

Changed in compiz:
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in compiz (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: Confirmed → Triaged
summary: - compiz doesn't minimize child windows too
+ Minimize child windows
summary: - Minimize child windows
+ Minimize child windows with parent windows
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Travis Watkins (amaranth) wrote :

This has been fixed in the compiz packages in karmic.

Changed in compiz (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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István Máté (stephanvs) wrote :

Just tried it in karmic, to tell the truth, it became annoying Impress (OpenOffice Presentation), if you try to minimize the main window in a dual-head setup, the presentation window minimizes too... :(

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