[Bug 494096] Re: Clicking the title of a window is bringing a window underneath it into focus

[cheater]

This is a critical issue which can lead to:

1. security compromise: a process is running in a terminal, which can get closed by a mis-click. This is now open to being spoofed by someone while you're gone, to e.g. steal your password. Alternatively, let's say it was a firewall, which is now removed.
2. lost work (there are comments here that mention this has cost people considerable amounts of money)
3. instability (you disable an important part of the system)
4. data corruption (data is overwritten because it goes into the wrong window as per one of the comments above)

There has been a patch for this *critical* issue over a year now (!) and
there is a fix in 10.10 since the very release. There is absolutely no
reason for the harsh wait until 29/07/2011. Taking 5 months for
something that takes 5 seconds, when there's a critical issue on hand,
is not the way forward. The alternative of poisoning your system with
PPA's or self-compiled software is not acceptable. Switching to a non-
LTS release is not a solution either. Please fix immediately, there
really is no reason not to.

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Title:
  Clicking the title of a window is bringing a window underneath it into
  focus

Status in The Metacity Window Manager:
  Fix Released
Status in Mutter:
  Fix Released
Status in “metacity” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “metacity” source package in Lucid:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gnome-session

  Just recently, I have noticed with Karmic and my laptop that clicking
  on the window title bar focuses the wrong window. It happens mostly
  when I click and drag, expecting to move the window from one monitor
  to the other. Often the window is maximized.

  In my setup, I have a laptop with an external monitor enabled via
  xrandr. The problem occurs with both my DVI and my VGA output. I put
  my laptop into standby when I leave work and wake it back up at home,
  so I switch between the monitors in one gnome-session.

  My LnF is custom, using Human-Clearlooks and a custom Window Border I
  found on the gnome look site called "BlendedSmallDoubleRound".

  It isn't 100% reproducible but does happen quite often. I never had
  this problem in Ubuntu pre-Karmic.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Dec  8 09:31:22 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
  Package: gnome-session 2.28.0-0ubuntu5
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
  SourcePackage: gnome-session
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic x86_64