Still happens in Ubuntu 12.04 (and 11.04) for me, triggered whenever I window-shade for example Thunderbird or Firefox. Minimizing and restoring the window helps. According to other messages here, screensaver and thus standby also always triggers it. I also confirm that focusing another window for a moment helps.
The symptom of the bug is that in Firefox URL autocompletion, the list of suggestions immediately vanishes when it is about to show up and that all sorts of menus vanish at the moment when I try to move the mouse over them. For example I click on FILE, a menu shows up, I move the mouse to the menu, it vanishes. VERY frustrating. Sometimes using hotkeys helps, but by far not everything works without mouse. According to this bug discussion, the problem might be the Z window stacking of compiz messing up and getting fixed by being reset using the minimize- restore or focus-something-else workarounds. This might also be related to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/968332 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438868 Title: Numerous applications have focus issues after emerging from a screensaver or suspend Status in Compiz: Fix Released Status in Eclipse: Unknown Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: Invalid Status in kile, latex editor: Confirmed Status in “compiz” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “firefox-3.0” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “firefox-3.5” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “indicator-session” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “compiz” source package in Lucid: Fix Released Status in “firefox” source package in Lucid: Invalid Status in “firefox-3.0” source package in Lucid: Invalid Status in “firefox-3.5” source package in Lucid: Invalid Status in “indicator-session” source package in Lucid: Invalid Status in “compiz” source package in Maverick: Fix Released Status in “firefox” source package in Maverick: Invalid Status in “firefox-3.0” source package in Maverick: Invalid Status in “firefox-3.5” source package in Maverick: Invalid Status in “indicator-session” source package in Maverick: Invalid Bug description: Binary package hint: firefox-3.5 For the past few weeks, builds of Firefox 3.5, 3.6, and 3.7 have exhibited a behavior where the autocomplete of the so-called awesome bar will only work sporadically. There are some times where the autocomplete will not work at all and other times when it will appear for a few milliseconds after typing a letter before disappearing. I haven't been able to pin-point what causes this, but I have found that restarting the browser resolves the issue until it occurs again. This doesn't happen very often, but at least a few times each day. Reproducible: Sometimes ========== SRU: This bug affects all users using compiz and Firefox.Patch is taken from the compiz 0.8.8 branch from upstream cgit. Patch has also been port-forwarded to 0.9 branch and is available in latest Natty compiz package. TestCase: With current stock Ubuntu compiz packages: 1- When Firefox is open; allow screensaver to kick-in (or resume from suspend) and then start using Firefox 2- Notice Awesome bar does not auto-complete with suggestions(firefox 3.6) and bookmarks menu, context menu are completely unusable(Firefox 4). Install compiz package from -proposed: Awesome bar, Context menu, bookmarks menus all work normally Regression potential: None ( maybe users notice more awesomeness of Firefox 4?) ========== SRU packages: For Ubuntu 10.10 : Maverick-proposed > Compiz 1:0.8.6-0ubuntu9.2 For Ubuntu 10.04 : Lucid-proposed > Compiz 1:0.8.4-0ubuntu15.3 ========== Compiz commit which seems to fix the issue for Firefox: http://cgit.compiz.org/compiz/core/commit/?id=30a92d8a060d79181a28840d7c66428ef431200c ========== To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/compiz/+bug/438868/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
