Comment 9 for bug 695570

This bug is very real and you can easily compare the difference in Metacity, which works fine.

The point is that the window manager is in charge of, for each window, the location, size and stacking. The title bar and window borders are one way to adjust all of these. Another way is to use the meta key. The meta key method is useful because it will work in any part of a window, making it faster to use and also possible when the title bar is hidden.

The problem is that while we can still control the position and size of a window using the meta key (meta+drag left for location, meta+drag middle for size, meta+click right for menu), the bring to top command has stopped working in compiz. This has normally been available with meta+click left.

This should work regardless of the click to raise settings, just as clicking on the title bar continues to work. The two are equivalent and should function the same. By holding the meta key you are specifically telling the window manager that you are talking to it and not to the application.

As I said, this can easily be seen working in Metacity. This is a blocker for me using unity. I love focus follows mouse precisely because of the ability to place windows exactly where I want them. Without this ability it takes longer to do so than it should.