From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021027 Description of problem: I have configured my window focus to 'point to focus' and to raise the window when focus is given If I open (for example) the Preferences window from with Mozilla, and it takes me some time to get my mouse to be in the newly opened window, then the focus will go back to the main Mozilla window and the Preference dialog will be pushed back (in terms of z-ordering) However, the window-list applet in the panel does not indicate that the window is there. It's kind of confusing to determine what windows/dialogs will be shown in the window-list applet Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Change preferences of Window Focus to 'Point to Focus' 2. Also, check 'raise window on focus' 3. Activate a window, e.g (click the 'About menu' on the Window list) applet 4. The About box will briefly show up but if you don't move your mouse quickly to within it, it will be hidden 5. The About box dialog is not displayed amongst the list of windows, in the window-list applet 6. If you minimise, the other windows you can see the 'About box ' dialog on the screen Additional info:
You can get an experimental "libwnck" that fixes this at ftp://people.redhat.com/hp/gnomehide/, may also want the newer metacity there that improves some handling of stacking order.