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Status: Archived
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Closed: Sep 13
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OS: Linux
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Type: Bug-Regression



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Can't Alt-tab away from Chrome. Seems to hog the foreground

Reported by peter.n...@gmail.com, Feb 21 2018

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.167 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Stand up Debian 9 VM in Google Cloud 'Compute Engine'
2. Install Mate Desktop, NoMachine, Chrome/Chromium
3. Connect remotely with NoMachine
4. Open Chrome and a few other Windows
5. Try Alt-tab behavior

I can give highly detailed steps if you want...
Or even give remote access to the server in question I suppose...

What is the expected behavior?
That Alt-tab AND clicking in the task bar would allow other windows to become foregrounded.

What went wrong?
Alt-tab AND clicking in the task bar is ineffective at bringing other windows in front of Chrome/Chromium.

Everything else works fine. I can Alt-tab away from all other apps tried. Both Chrome AND Chromium however, seem to hog the foreground. The Alt-tab animations work, but upon releasing the Alt key - The desired other app window does not come forward.

Interestingly, minimizing and restoring a Chrome window temporarily allows other windows to be foregrounded by clicking in the task bar (but doesn't help with Alt-tab)

Did this work before? Yes Can't recall.

Chrome version: 64.0.3282.167  Channel: stable
OS Version: Debian 9 (stretch)
Flash Version: 

There is a long-closed bug here getting a pretty constant trickle of similar reports going back to 2011, and as recent as Feb/14/2018:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=81076
Claimed to be dup of 74604, but seems only a passing similarity to me...
 
Labels: Needs-Triage-M64 Needs-Bisect
Cc: vamshi.kommuri@chromium.org
Labels: Triaged-ET TE-NeedsTriageFromHYD
Thanks for filing the issue!

This issue seems to be out of scope for triaging from ET team, as it speaks about setting up a Debian 9 VM in Google Cloud "compute engine",  installing mate desktop and remotely connecting to NoMachine. 
Requesting someone from TE-Hyd team to have a look into this and help in further triaging, hence adding label TE-NeedsTriageFromHYD.
I thought you might say that... It's strange that every other tools works though, just not Chrome, or Chromium, or Opera for that matter.

Firefox works fine, so I guess I will have to give that a try for a while!
Just one more thing - It's pretty clear that Chrome/Chromium is rendering its window in some way that is different to most other Linux programs.

It it possible there could be some rendering setting in Chrome Flags that _might_ restore the functionality that is problematic in my situation? Just asking...
Cc: manoranj...@chromium.org kkaluri@chromium.org
Labels: -TE-NeedsTriageFromHYD
Unable to triage this issue from TE-End because of non availability of cloud platform test setup, hence adding TE-NeedsTriageFromMTV label for further triage from MTV
Labels: TE-NeedsTriageFromMTV
Status: Archived (was: Unconfirmed)
Archiving old bugs that haven't been actively assigned in over 180 days.

If you feel this issue should still be addressed, feel free to reopen it or to file a new issue. Thanks!

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