Comment 5 for bug 785399

> So I turned that off and used system title bars to avoid losing the
> controls BUT I prefer compact mode.

> The "ALT" drag works to drag it back.

If Alt works for you, you don’t need to turn compact mode off, that should be good enough to get windows fully back in sight. Note that this is specific to Google Chrome, what it allows you is somehow bypassing the rules established by the window manager, which is not a good thing overall for consistency. But in any case, Alt+drag solves the issue.

> I did look everywhere for the Unity 2d shortcut lists including
> googling and have the desktop wallpaper set to the unity shortcut
> list. As you are aware not all the unity 3d shortcuts works for 2d.

We are aware of the problem, and a number of bug reports have been opened to track each of them separately (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-2d/+bugs?field.searchtext=shortcut). If you find shortcuts that are not implemented and for which there is no bug report, please file one!
When all the bugs are fixed, the list of shortcuts for Unity 3D and 2D will be exactly the same, the goal is to achieve a consistent user experience across the two environments.

> Another thing that happened the other day is I clicked a Java script
> link to open a window in chrome from my banking website that forced
> the window to maximize without system bars and title bars and had no
> way to resize it or close the window. After I got OLIVERS response I
> went back to my banking website and re-clicked the link and tried to
> use the ALT to drag the window and it would not.

Javascript resizing windows is broken code, and this banking website should be fixed.
Note that firefox allows you to forbid web pages to resize windows. Chrome apparently doesn’t have this option.

> This may seems like small issues but these are problems everyday
> users could have that could stain the creditability Ubuntu unity
> desktop.

Agreed, we are dedicated to fixing every single usability issue, and your attention to detail is appreciated!

> One thing I have seen since the last 2 updates in the last view days
> is that now if I click on Google Chrome in the launcher it does now
> pull up which windows are open and you can click your window of choice.
> That didn't work when I first filed my report.

It should have worked back then, but in any case glad to know it works now and improves usability for you.

I am sure this is more a Google Chrome application issue than unity 2d now. BUT unity 2d needs to give us an emergency way out if an application doesn't play nice especially since Ubuntu Oneiric is contemplating on Unity 2d in the next release if I am not mistaken.