Unity

Launcher: auto-hide gets stuck sometimes / Nux don't sent enter/leave events

Bug #763275 reported by Paul Sladen
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This bug affects 14 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Nux
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned
Unity
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned
Unity 3.8.10
nux (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned
Ubuntu ubuntu-11.04

Bug Description

To reproduce:

  1. Starting in the centre of the screen
  2. Slide pointer up to top-edge of screen
  3. Slide pointer left to top-left corner pixel
  4. Slide pointer down to left-edge of screen
  5. Slide pointer right to centre of the screen

What happens:

  Launcher gets stuck open

What should happen:

  Launcher should autohide

This is a fairly frequent occurrence. As use-case that causes it is aiming for the browser back-button and overshooting in all directions, after which the browser back button (original target) is now covered and inaccessible!

See original description
Paul Sladen (sladen)
description: updated
Changed in unity:
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Triaged
milestone: none → ubuntu-11.10
milestone: ubuntu-11.10 → ubuntu-11.04
Paul Sladen (sladen)
summary: - Laucher: auto-hide gets stuck open if point arrives to left-edge via
+ Launcher: auto-hide gets stuck open if point arrives to left-edge via
top-left pixel
summary: - Launcher: auto-hide gets stuck open if point arrives to left-edge via
+ Launcher: auto-hide gets stuck open if pointer arrives to left-edge via
top-left pixel
Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)
Changed in unity:
assignee: nobody → Didier Roche (didrocks)
status: Confirmed → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
milestone: none → 3.8.10
Revision history for this message
Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) wrote : Re: Launcher: auto-hide gets stuck open if pointer arrives to left-edge via top-left pixel

After talking to Paul, it's not 100% reproducible and seems to be related to missing nux events. We didn't have a bug for tracking it, let's take this one as a reference.

Changed in unity:
assignee: Didier Roche (didrocks) → nobody
affects: unity (Ubuntu) → nux (Ubuntu)
Changed in nux (Ubuntu):
importance: High → Medium
Changed in unity:
importance: High → Medium
Changed in nux:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
summary: - Launcher: auto-hide gets stuck open if pointer arrives to left-edge via
- top-left pixel
+ Launcher: auto-hide gets stuck sometimes / Nux don't sent enter/leave
+ events
Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)
Changed in unity:
milestone: 3.8.10 → 3.8.12
Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)
Changed in unity:
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Changed in nux:
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Changed in unity:
milestone: 3.8.12 → 3.8.10
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package nux - 0.9.46-0ubuntu1

---------------
nux (0.9.46-0ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - ensure text entry size is updated with different font size
    - fix some missing nux events sent (LP: #763275, #750122)
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Tue, 19 Apr 2011 19:26:25 +0200

Changed in nux (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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Peter Rhone (prhone-gmail) wrote :

Perhaps it was fixed for some, but I have:
nux-tools:
  Installed: 0.9.46-0ubuntu4

...and the unity panel is stuck open, making my computer very hard to use. All updates are current as of 23.4.2011, can't reboot atm because I have too much work open.

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Falco Weigend (neovandeen) wrote :

Just as Peter said,

the panel is stuck open sometimes.

fweigend@falco-pc:~$ dpkg --list|grep nux-tools
ii nux-tools 0.9.46-0ubuntu4

the workaround, which works for me, is to drag an icon from the desktop over the panel and back again.
After that, it's working normal.

Regards

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Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote :

This is marked fix released, but I just helped clan get her machine out of this state (Launcher jammed open).

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DJ (twk3) wrote :

Just had the same problem. Falco's trick with dragging an icon worked.

ii nux-tools 0.9.48-0ubuntu1

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kikola (nvelkovski-hotmail) wrote :

Thanks DJ, that helped!!

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Dev (scotty-amnet) wrote :

Same problem here, and the work-around above works for me, however it appears to be somewhat linked to my use of Aqua Data Studio (it is written in Java). Once the launcher is locked, I can exit Aqua Data Studio and everything returns to normal....

Dont know if its relevant.

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Michele Mattioni (mattions) wrote :

I have the same problem with LibreOffice.

This is a big problem, because some of the menu are not accessible when the bar is stuck.

I'm running 3.8.12-0ubuntu1 unity.

I think we either reopen this bug, or we should make a new one.

Closing LibreOffice resolve the problem and the bar gets back to normal behaviour

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psypher (psypher246) wrote :

I can confirm that this just happened to me with Libre open. Didn;t know that was the cause till I found this bug. Closed libre and immediatly the panel autohid itself

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Sasa Stamenkovic (umpirsky) wrote :

Just had the same problem. Falco's trick with dragging an icon worked. Some option to force hide would be helpful.

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