When you copy files from a folder to another and the copy dialog appears with a progress bar, it has a number of issues:
- In the first place, it is not treated as a normal window. This means that it won't show up on the bottom panel in Gnome. Or if you have awn in Unity like me, set up to show each window individually, it won't show up on awn either. Also, atl+tab will never show it. This may be by design but it is a wrong design.
- Second, sometimes the window will appear on the background, behind other windows, but this may be because of the more general bug in Ubuntu which happens with ANY new window
- Third, sometimes it just doesn't show up. Even if you minimize one by one all the other windows, you'll never find it.
- If it does show up but you happen to minimize it (which you can because it has a minimize button) you will never be able to find it again, because of issues one and of the following ones:
- Fourth: if you click on Nautilus's icon in the launcher on the left of the screen (Unity), there is even a "show copy dialog" option in the context menu, which is there just to make fun of the user: it WON'T show up the copy dialog
- If you click on the laucnher icon when nautilus is already on the foreground, it will show you all nautilus windows to select one of them, as it does with any other application, but the copy dialog is not among them; this is I guess a consequence of the first issue.
- And last but not least, if you have minimized it once, it will never show up again even after it has finished and disappeared and you copy other files. You'll have to restart the computer to have it work again. This may explain the third issue.
The first issue and its consequence were already there in 10.10, but the way Unity works makes it worst.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.2.1-0ubuntu3.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-16.28-generic 3.0.17
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-16-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Feb 1 16:08:56 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-12-07 (55 days ago)
thank you for you bug report, that's a duplicate though