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gnome-shell package

Minimized windows reappear when closing the overview

Bug #1868896 reported by Kyle Weber on 2020-03-25

This bug affects 10 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-shell (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	High	Daniel van Vugt

Bug Description

I just ran all of the updates for 20.04 on two machines, and both machines experience the same issue.

Items do not appear to stay "minimized". For instance, you can minimize Thunderbird, and it appears to re-maximize itself. However, you cannot click on anything in the maximized window, but you can re-minimize it (that button does work), then click the dock to bring it back out and it functions properly.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+19ubuntu14
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-18.22-generic 5.4.24
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-18-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu21
Architecture: amd64
BootLog: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/boot.log'
CompositorRunning: None
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Mar 24 18:11:35 2020
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: focal
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes
GraphicsCard:
Intel Corporation Iris Plus Graphics G7 [8086:8a52] (rev 07) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Dell Iris Plus Graphics G7 [1028:096d]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-03-11 (13 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Alpha amd64 (20200311)
MachineType: Dell Inc. XPS 13 9300
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/BOOT/ubuntu_vp1gr9@/vmlinuz-5.4.0-18-generic root=ZFS=rpool/ROOT/ubuntu_vp1gr9 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=1
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 01/17/2020
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 1.0.6
dmi.board.name: 077Y9N
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvr1.0.6:bd01/17/2020:svnDellInc.:pnXPS139300:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn077Y9N:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct10:cvr:
dmi.product.family: XPS
dmi.product.name: XPS 13 9300
dmi.product.sku: 096D
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.100-4
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 20.0.0-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 20.0.0-1ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.20.7-2ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:19.1.0-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20190815-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.16-1

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Kyle Weber (kyew01) wrote on 2020-03-25:

CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (79.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (22.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgLog.txt Edit (1.3 MiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (14.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb.txt Edit (460 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb-t.txt Edit (808 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb-v.txt Edit (51.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
MonitorsUser.xml.txt Edit (553 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (11.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (1.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (8.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (10.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (244.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLog.txt Edit (53.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLogOld.txt Edit (56.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Xrandr.txt Edit (716 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xdpyinfo.txt Edit (66.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Kyle Weber (kyew01) wrote on 2020-03-25:

Oddly enough, it seems to only happen when Microsoft Teams is open. I just noticed that it wasn't happening, but the moment I open Teams, it started to happen again. Note: MS Teams is NOT the program that won't stay minimized--it is any program.

summary:

- 20.04 items won't stay minimized
+ 20.04 items won't stay minimized with MS Teams Open

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Kyle Weber (kyew01) wrote on 2020-03-25:

I thought it had something to do with Teams being open, but this doesn't appear to be the case.

description:	updated
summary:	- 20.04 items won't stay minimized with MS Teams Open + 20.04 items won't stay minimized

Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) on 2020-03-25

affects:

ubuntu → xorg (Ubuntu)

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) on 2020-03-25

affects:	xorg (Ubuntu) → gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) on 2020-03-25

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) on 2020-03-25

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	Confirmed → In Progress
tags:	added: champagne

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote on 2020-03-25:

It appears this is caused by https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1070 but other more recent upstream changes have also broken that patch in ways I don't yet understand...

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote on 2020-03-25:

Fixed upstream (needs refreshing in Ubuntu):

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1070.patch

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status:	In Progress → Fix Committed

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) on 2020-03-25

summary:

- 20.04 items won't stay minimized
+ Minimized windows reappear when closing the overview

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Kyle Weber (kyew01) wrote on 2020-03-25:

Thanks for your quick response on this! So awesome!

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) on 2020-03-30

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
importance:	Medium → High

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Rocko (rockorequin) wrote on 2020-03-30:

How quickly is Ubuntu likely to be refreshed with the fix? I don't mind minimized windows pseudo-reappearing after the overview screen closes, but they also do the same on every right mouse click in many apps, and then it's a right pain when you keep clicking on them and wonder why they aren't responding!

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote on 2020-03-30:

I think we're most likely to drop the patch since even after fixing this bug it seems to expose new issues in mutter which we don't have time to fix right now...

3v1n0? seb128?

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote on 2020-03-30:

Dropping the patch would also fix this bug.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2020-03-30:

#10

The patch has been reverted in https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/3.36.0-2ubuntu2

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2020-03-30:

#11

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-shell - 3.36.0-2ubuntu2

---------------
gnome-shell (3.36.0-2ubuntu2) focal; urgency=medium

  * d/p/overview-Fade-in-out-over-the-desktop-instead-of-replacin.patch:
    - Drop patch to fade in/out the desktop instead of replacing it, it causes
      some bugs. (LP: #1868896, #1868911)
  * d/p/keyboard-Don-t-include-keyboard-devices-when-updating-las.patch,
    d/p/keyboard-Hide-keyboardBox-after-destroying-the-keyboard.patch,
    d/p/layout-Use-translation_y-of-0-to-hide-keyboard.patch:
    - Fix OSK leaves dask mask after being hidden (LP: #1845623)

-- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <email address hidden> Mon, 30 Mar 2020 17:49:05 +0100

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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Rocko (rockorequin) wrote on 2020-03-31:

#12

It looks like it's fixed here in gnome-shell 3.36.0-2ubuntu2, thanks.

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bart (bart-wp) wrote on 2020-03-31:

#13

Problem solved for me to, thank you.

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