Window buttons disabled after using 'show desktop' multiple times

Bug #986294 reported by 2green
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #880449: Window title bars are un-clickable. Edit Remove
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Bug Description

* Impact
This bug blocks the use of te windows buttons(minimize, maximize, close) when using the show desktop shortcuts. In a (my) avarage workproces this bug shows a few times a day. Only when using the by pass the windows buttons are enabled again. The only way to by pass this bug is to use the shortcut ctrl-alt-D to maximize and minimize again.
Chances are that most users won't discover this workarround.

I took me a while to find out how to reproduce this bug, following the shortest scenario I could think of the reproduce. Please keep in mind that this bug arises in multiple scenarios.

* Pre condition
There are no running applications

* user story
Select 'system settings' from the sidebar
Minimize the window using the minimize button
Press ctrl+alt+D
Press ctrl+alt+D again
Select 'system settings' from the sidebar
Minimize the window using the minimize button

* Expected behavior
The 'system settings' window is minimized

* Current behavior
The 'system settings' window is NOT minimized (button are disabled)

* Extra information
This problem occurs with any windowed application.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

thank you for your bug report, seems like a decorator,compiz issue, could you take a screenshot showing the bug?

affects: unity (Ubuntu) → compiz (Ubuntu)
Changed in compiz (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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Changed in compiz (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → New
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 880449, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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2green (zendhetmij) wrote :

The duplicate bugs seems to be solved, this one isn't.

Just retested it with latest updates.

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