Bug 2216913

Summary:	Windows do not come into foreground when clicked
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Albert Flügel <af>
Component:	gnome-shell	Assignee:	GNOME SIG Unassigned <gnome-sig>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	38	CC:	adscvr, fmuellner, gnome-sig, jadahl, otaylor, philip.wyett
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Description Albert Flügel 2023-06-23 08:22:16 UTC

Say, i have 2 windows open e.g. a thunderbird and a firefox. One of them is in the background e.g. firefox. When i click on it's titlebar, it remains in background. I have to move the window to get it to front.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start firefox
2. start thunderbird
3. try to get firefox into foreground by clicking on title bar
Actual Results:  
firefox remains in background

Expected Results:  
firefox comes into foreground

It happens in Gnome on Xorg, not on "wayland" and not with plasma. It is new in fedora 38

Comment 1 Albert Flügel 2023-07-07 14:54:13 UTC

Funny, 2 years ago it was the other way round: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1789563 .
On one of my computers i have a Radeon graphics chip and there wayland is not offered (what might be intentional), so i cannot avoid Xorg. Not, what i want to use wayland, but this weird behaviour is annoying, especially considering that today in many application windows there is hardly an area, where nothing happens, when it is clicked, what would be another option to bring a window to the front..

Comment 2 Albert Flügel 2023-09-09 14:17:49 UTC

According to what i've read about seperating functionalities in Gnome and probably other components i suspect, that the issue is actually in "/usr/libexec/mutter-x11-frames", so "mutter" is probably the more appropriate component to assign to

Comment 3 Fedora Admin user for bugzilla script actions 2023-12-06 08:24:08 UTC

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Comment 4 Aoife Moloney 2024-05-28 13:13:13 UTC

Fedora Linux 38 entered end-of-life (EOL) status on 2024-05-21.

Fedora Linux 38 is no longer maintained, which means that it
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