It has to do with beryl's focus-stealing-prevention or whatever. When I turn it off, it works. Compiz does this too by default though. Nevertheless, i'm putting it on rejected. Has no point tracker it here, like this.
** Changed in: deskbar-applet (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected -- desk-bar applet should hide result-list when focus is lost https://launchpad.net/bugs/85785 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs