Description of problem: If i have some app (such as the "add to panel"), and in the bacground starts something that needs root privs to execute, i get the pasword dialog *under* the "add to panel" box. Clicking on it in the taskbar (its called "spør" - norwegian for "ask" - but that is a completely other story) does not bring it on top, i have to *close* add to panel first. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): metacity-2.10.0-1 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: I personally thougth the point of that feature was to make sure that no IM window (etc) popped up over your password dialog and you typed your password in there and hit enter...
It is interesting that metacity fails to raise other windows over any dialogs opened from the panel. The same is true for the "Delete Panel" dialog, for "About", etc. They are not transient for the panel, but maybe being in the same window group is enough to confuse metacity.
In fact, removing WM_HINTS (with the window group information) from the "Add to panel" dialog lets me raise other windows above it.
I have filed http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303570 about this. It probably makes more sense to treat it as a panel issue...
(Fixed upstream and backported the patch) * Wed May 11 2005 Mark McLoughlin <markmc> 2.10.1-10 - Fix "dialogs pop up under panel dialogs" issue (bug #156425)