Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 129380
Focus Issue with new windows
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:47 EST
Description of problem: metacity upgrade in rawhide introduced a few annoying focus related behaviors with new windows. The below behavior is different than FC1 and FC2. Examples: 1) ALT-F2 pops up in front, but does not have focus automatically. 2) Click a link that launches a new browser window. Window does not pop in front, and it does not have focus. 3) Clicking on another program in the task manager more than once no longer minimizes it again. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): metacity-2.8.2-1
4) Click on a different program in the task bar, and while it may pop-up, it wont have focus.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149028
Actually, the reference for issue 4 is http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118372 (past comment 100 or so; it really should have been a different bug--oops). It the _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW isn't sent with a timestamp problem; it's both a libwnck and metacity bug. As for point 3, I saw that today but I thought I had only seen it with my local patches. Warren: What focus mode are you using (click, sloppy, focus), what version of libwnck, and what other non-default options do you have set for metacity (autoraise, etc.) if any? 100% reproducible?
Oops, forgot to add myself to cc. Extra notes: Issue 1 is just part of the already-mentioned 'panel isn't setting timestamps right' (failure to use startup-notification?) in 149028. I'm assuming issue 2 is only true so long as the browser is already running, correct? If not, there's an extra bug somewhere (due to not using startup notification), and we need to know what app you're clicking in to launch the browser. But I'm most interested in issue 3; I wasn't aware of that one, so if you could answer the above questions...
Sorry for the spam. One more question though, in regards to issue 3: When you clicked on the tasklist for the window the first time, was the window correctly focused? If not, maybe you just independently discovered http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149589.