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    I can reproduce this with Gnome's default window manager, Metacity.
    With the Blackbox window manager, it works fine.  My suspicion is that
    Metacity is trying to be clever, and failing.

If there is a bug in Metacity, we ought to report it.
Can you manage to do that?