Bug 466622

Should be fixed in compiz-0.7.6-15.fc10 
It should hit rawhide soon, you can also grab it from koji: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=895910

Thank you for the quick response.  

After applying from koji, the windows are now correctly displayed (always on to of image window).  The task bar still displays one item for each utility window if gimp is started with desktop effects is on vice only one if started with desktop effects off.

If you start gimp with desktop effects off and then turn them on, there will be only one task displayed.  However if you close, then open one of the utility windows (layers for instance), it will get its own task bar item.

I talked with upstream about this. This behavior is intentional. GIMP expects that utility windows will not show up in the taskbar, which is wrong. The only WM that does this is metacity. 

The correct fix for this would be to let GIMP set the skip_taskbar hint for this windows, so that it will work with any WM.

You can also configure compiz to behave like metacity, you will need an updated compiz-fusion package[1] for this.

1) enable the winrules plugin:

gconftool-2 -s /apps/compiz/general/allscreens/options/active_plugins --type=list --list-type=string `gconftool-2 -g /apps/compiz/general/allscreens/options/active_plugins | sed 's/\]//'`,winrules]

2) Enable skip_taskbar for utility windows:

gconftool-2 -s /apps/compiz/plugins/winrules/screen0/options/skiptaskbar_match --type string "type=Utility"

Than you should have the same behavior as with metacity.

1: You need compiz-fusion-0.7.6-7.fc10 (will be in rawhide soon, can be grabbed from koji: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=67408

Opened bug for GIMP at:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_activity.cgi?id=557816

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
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