Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-panel
In lucid, I'm having fairly consistent trouble unminimizing a window
from gnome-panel.
If a window won't unminimize it just sits there slowly blinking when I
initially (and unsuccessfully) try to unminimize it.
Sometimes, if I minimize and unminimize the currently active window
(window A), and then click on the window I want to unminimize (window
B), then window B will pop up.
I also had a case where all windows were minimized, and I couldn't get a
single one to come back. I noticed when I right-click on a blank area of
the panel, it was giving me options like "Move to workspace Right",
which would only make sense if I was right-clicking on a window. So I
clicked that a couple times, and finally got stuff to come back.
Another way to "wake up" the window is to move the window to a different
workspace and back. Perhaps back and forth a couple times. I did this
once with firefox when I noticed that the little workspace icon showed
the window maximized, BUT it wasn't actually maximized. Other times the
workspace icon doesn't show the window as restored.
So basically, gnome-panel, the workspace icon on gnome panel, and the
actual desktop seem very confused about what the current state of the
window is. I've even managed to get the right-click window panel menu to
give me the option to both "unminimize the window" AND "unmaximize the
window". Which would seem rather contradictory.
I've double checked to make sure I didn't just cover up the window or
have the window on another workspace or something. And I've seen this
problem on two separate Lucid machines which I use very differently - my
home laptop, which mostly just sits there with firefox, and my work
desktop that has several windows open at once, with a lot of switching
between them.
This is just very odd, and hard to describe, but I'll try to help if I
can.
** Affects: gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Can't unminimize windows in panel
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/609262
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