oddity with moving "Link" icons on desktop (Ubuntu 13.10 Unity)

[Tom H]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 12:31 AM, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:


> The desktop in 13.10 has a few funnies:
>
> - this one
>
> - sometimes the window spread does not render all the windows fully.
> There is a gap in the spread; hovering the mouse over the gap shows up a
> border, but no window content, although clicking inside the border
> brings the window to the front as expected.
>
> - sometimes windows "vanish". ALT-Tab can sometimes find them, but
> sometimes not. Sometimes clicking on the sidebar launcher icon brings
> them back. I'm still collecting the evidence on that one.

I've never seen either of these problems on either 13.10 when I was
using it or on 14.04. Can you reproduce this? Or does "sometimes" mean
that it happens then everything's OK then it happens, irregularly and
randomly?

I have a problem, from time to time, with Qemu windows suddenly being
recognized as firefox, gnome-terminal, or chrome windows. I have no
idea how it's triggered so I haven't filed a bug report...


> - seems like Canonical is continuing its plan to remove all user
> customisability. The printer wizard is next to useless now. In 10.xx it
> was really good. Wish I could remember its name, I'd install it again.

This may be an unfair accusation because the printer wizard most
likely is inherited from upstream Gnome and the latter adopted a fewer
settings, fewer options way-of-life some time ago.