touching a fullscreen application with the mousepointer puts it in front

Looks as if you've activated a special feature intended for this. Please go to System > Preferences > Windows, and make sure 'select windows when the mouse moves over them' and 'Raise selected windows after an interval' are not selected. Thanks!

Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!.

Pedro Villavicencio wrote:

> Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen
> this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!.

Seems like mails to launchpad are not getting through. So, as suggested, I'm reopening this bug:

Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:05:18 +0200 (CEST)
From: Tomas Pospisek
To: Bug 249958 <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Bug 249958] Re: touching a fullscreen application with the mousepointer puts it in front

On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Nick Ellery wrote:

> Looks as if you've activated a special feature intended for this.
> Please go to System > Preferences > Windows, and make sure 'select
> windows when the mouse moves over them' and 'Raise selected windows
> after an interval' are not selected. Thanks!

As I wrote:

- System > Preferences > Windows >
  'select windows when the mouse moves over them', *is* selected
  (aka focus follows mouse), as intended
- System > Preferences > Windows >
  'Raise selected windows after an interval', is *not* selected
  (aka raise on focus), as intended

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!.

Sorry Pedro Villavicencio, you can't just keep on invalidating bug reports without even bothering to read them. Go away #331767

Tomas, if your emails aren't getting to Launchpad then we have no way to triage your bugs. From the perspective of anyone looking at the bug, you aren't responding. I understand your frustration in that you are trying to communicate, but obviously no one else has any way of knowing that and the actions taken are quite logical in response (marking Incomplete or Invalid). If it is a recurring issue (I've never heard of anyone else having troubles) then just visit the actual bug page and leave your comments there to ensure they go through. Then this won't happen to you in the future!

Thanks for the kind words Michael, however I think they miss the main point:

Michael Rooney wrote:

> Tomas, if your emails aren't getting to Launchpad then we have no way to triage your bugs

You are right.

> From the perspective of anyone looking at the bug, you aren't responding.

That's however not entirely correct. I clearly stated how the bug can be reproduced. I doubt Nick Ellery tried to follow my steps, I certainly might be misstaken though. Nevertheless I replied to his inquiry one month later, again with instructions, without any visible action from anybody on this bug to this day. The bug wasn't even confirmed alltough it's quite trivial to do so.

The next question was Pedro Villavicencio's boilerplate (see LP:331767 for a discussion of that particular process) which I suspect is a semi-automatic script intended to expire inactive bugs. Is it?

> If it is a recurring issue (I've never heard of anyone else having troubles) then just visit the actual bug page and leave your comments there to ensure they go through.

If anybody is serious about fixing bugs, then please do reproduce it, the instructions are there and not difficult. If the goal is to expire as many bugs as possible, then don't count me in taking the time ever again to reply to one of those boilerplates, where it's "author" didn't care either to reproduce or fix the bug.

As Mike said if you have problems with your emails getting to Launchpad please do contact the launchpad team. With the information you provided in the first place we're unabled to reproduce the issue, might be only affecting you that's why we are asking to reproduce it with a newest version of metacity, are you able to do it? otherwise might be good to send this directly to bugzilla.gnome.org where the software authors are going to read about it and probably have a better clue of what's going on the package. Thanks.

could be the same as bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356829 could you take a look and confirm is that the same you're facing? thanks you.

(The upstream maintainer says: I do actually read all comments on all metacity bugs on launchpad too)

Thanks for the report, it has been some time without any response or feedback in this bug report and we are wondering if this is still an issue for you with the latest release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal, May you please test with that version and comment back if you're still having or not the issue? Please have a look at http://www.ubuntu.com/download to know how to install that version.Thanks in advance.

closing per request of the reporter.

I can reproduce this bug. However, only one of my machines exhibits this behavior.