This has been a problem since Natty. I reported it in Bug #796897 which has just been marked as a duplicate of this one. As mentioned above it's some kind of issue with how compiz is giving focus to windows. (Some things are better in Oneiric - for example, in Natty I used to have the problem that the only way to give focus to the Contact List window in Empathy was to use the Alt-Tab switcher, but this is no longer a problem.) I can't reproduce it every time I use Ctrl+Alt+Arrows and haven't figured out what triggers it exactly. Using the Unity launcher panel to select a window avoids the problem, but on a netbook with a trackpad and no mouse it's much easier to use the keyboard, and I keep Firefox maximised in its own workspace, so I see this at least a few times per day.
-- 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/872207 Title: When Firefox is running in Unity, drop-down menus sometime close when opened Status in Compiz: Confirmed Status in Unity Distro Priority: New Status in “compiz” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: This is something which used to happen regularly though not always (I switched to using fallback mode for a while because of it). Basically, drop-down menus in Firefox such as RSS feeds (or in Natty without the global menu the normal application menus were affected too) are simply not shown when clicked on. Context menus also fail to appear. This often disappeared for no apparent reason after I had used Firefox for a while. I haven't seen it for a while, but it has just re-appeared, possibly because I started Unity as "unity --replace" since I am currently testing an application's behaviour with different window managers. I'm sorry if this information is a bit threadbare. Please let me know if I can provide any additional helpful information. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: unity 4.22.0-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64 .tmp.unity.support.test.0: ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,regex,snap,compiztoolbox,place,gnomecompat,resize,session,grid,mousepoll,animation,move,workarounds,imgpng,expo,wall,unitymtgrabhandles,vpswitch,fade,scale,ezoom,unityshell] CompositorRunning: compiz Date: Tue Oct 11 11:57:45 2011 DistUpgraded: Log time: 2011-09-08 12:02:24.781017 DistroCodename: oneiric DistroVariant: ubuntu DkmsStatus: vboxhost, 4.1.4, 3.0.0-12-generic, x86_64: installed GraphicsCard: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0046] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:040a] InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007) MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude E6410 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic root=UUID=062b1769-7309-4422-a59c-ad30b109d53c ro crashkernel=384M-2G:64M,2G-:128M quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: unity UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-27 (14 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 11/20/2010 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.bios.version: A06 dmi.board.name: 0667CC dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.board.version: A03 dmi.chassis.type: 9 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA06:bd11/20/2010:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeE6410:pvr0001:rvnDellInc.:rn0667CC:rvrA03:cvnDellInc.:ct9:cvr: dmi.product.name: Latitude E6410 dmi.product.version: 0001 dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc. version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.6+bzr20110929-0ubuntu3 version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu25 version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.26-1ubuntu1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.11-0ubuntu3 version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.11-0ubuntu3 version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu7 version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.6.0-1ubuntu13 version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20110811.g93fc084-0ubuntu1 version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.15.901-1ubuntu2 version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110411+8378443-1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/compiz/+bug/872207/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
