[Bug 33879] Re: screen flicker when opening background windows

[Marius Gedminas]

I track Dapper and apt-get dist-upgrade daily.  When I perform the sequence of steps detailed by Carthik Sharma I get the same result -- there's a brief flicker, and a new Firefox window opens in the background.  (It might be different if I didn't have Firefox already running on another workspace, the smart focus stealing prevention code might position the window of a new Firefox instance on top.  I haven't tried it -- new foreground windows are outside the scope of this bug.)

Once gain, I do not object to Firefox opening in the background.  My Breezy used to open new Firefox windows in the background too.  However there was no flicker at all when I was running breezy (just a new flashing taskbar icon for the new window).

I consider this to be a small regression: in breezy a new background window used to appear smoothly, while in dapper it briefly obscurs the foreground window.

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screen flicker when opening background windows
https://launchpad.net/bugs/33879