Bug 1789563 - With Gnome windows do not raise when clicking on the title bar
Summary: With Gnome windows do not raise when clicking on the title bar
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mutter
Version: 31
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Florian Müllner
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-01-09 19:52 UTC by Albert Flügel
Modified: 2020-11-24 16:23 UTC (History)
15 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2020-11-24 16:23:56 UTC
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Description Albert Flügel 2020-01-09 19:52:22 UTC
Description of problem:
In a Gnome desktop it is not possible to bring a window to front by clicking into the title bar. Actually this is a problem of wayland, but i cannot select xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.20.6-1.fc31.x86_64 above.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.20.6-1.fc31.x86_64

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log into a Gnome desktop
2. Start two windows e.g. a gnome-terminal and a firefox
3. Try to bring the lower window to front by clicking on the title bar

Actual results:
nothing happens

Expected results:
window comes to front

Additional info:
i have set "Secondary Click" for "Window Focus" in the "Windows" section of the tweak-tool (don't know if that matters)
The problem does not show with Gnome classic
The problem does not show with Gnome on Xorg (i always knew i don't need wayland)
The problem does not show with Plasma
If the lower window is an xterm, the problem neither shows up i.e. it can be brought to front by clicking on the title bar (!?! good old stuff !)

Comment 1 Albert Flügel 2020-01-09 20:02:58 UTC
Additional info:
"Raise Windows When Focused" is of course switched off. I don't want this.
The window focus mode does not matter.
With 2 other programs i wrote long ago, one basing on bare Xt (X11 toolkit intrinsics) and the other program basing on motif (what implies Xt) the problem neither shows up. So it seems, it has also to do with newer desktop environment GUI toolkits.

Comment 2 Michel Dänzer 2020-01-10 10:11:33 UTC
It sounds like you've disabled the dconf setting /org/gnome/desktop/wm/preferences/raise-on-click somehow.
You can reset it to the default enabled with

 dconf reset /org/gnome/desktop/wm/preferences/raise-on-click

Comment 3 Albert Flügel 2020-01-10 17:39:19 UTC
Thank you, indeed this command remedied this strange behaviour.
So i wonder
- is only wayland honouring this setting ?
- how i ever set this value. I'm pretty sure i never issued such a command
- can this value be set in any tool ? i don't find anything like this in tweak-tool or system-settings
- why raising the window worked also by clicking on an edge or corner with the resize arrows visible (the parameter has a VERY generic name)

Comment 4 Ben Cotton 2020-11-03 17:14:59 UTC
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Comment 5 Ben Cotton 2020-11-24 16:23:56 UTC
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