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

[Karl Auer]

On Mon, 2014-02-10 at 05:44 -0500, Tom H wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 12:31 AM, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
> > - 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?

Neither is consistently reproducible. The first is just a bug - it may
be related to my use of the compiz extensions Expo, Desktop Cube and
Rotate Cube. Happens every third or fourth time I use "spread all
windows"

The second is more nebulous, though now I have seen it a few times I am
more alert for it and should be able to "catch it" when it happens. One
theory I have is that when mousing about with the compiz cube I am
sometimes catching the title bar of a window instead of the background,
and am somehow selecting "minimise". Not much of a theory but it's all I
have at present :)

Regards, K.

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