Bug 77442 - dialogs disappear behind windows too easily
Summary: dialogs disappear behind windows too easily
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: metacity
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Havoc Pennington
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-11-07 03:44 UTC by Scott Otterson
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:48 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-10-04 05:19:44 UTC
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Description Scott Otterson 2002-11-07 03:44:18 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020830

Description of problem:

When autoraise is enabled, I frequently find that blocking dialogs disappear
behind windows.  For example, in galeon, if I click on the "close window" button
when I have a bunch of tabs open, a dialog pops up asking if I really want to do
this.  If I move the cursor from the close button to the dialog too slowly, the
dialog window disappears behind the main galeon window, obeying some generic
autoraise rule.

This is pretty annoying because you then have to go mouse hunting for the hidden
window.  It's even worse when a blocking popup disappears without you noticing
it; galeon or whatever becomes unresponsive and you are fooled into thinking
that it has crashed.

For some reason, this was never a problem with sawfish.  I think metacity would
be improved if it adopted the sawfish blocking popup algorithm.

Note: I changed one or two of the sawfish default options but I'm not sure that
this affected its blocking popup behavior.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RedHat 8.0

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:

	

Additional info:

Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-11-07 04:29:02 UTC
this probably happens less or never with newer metacity; 
try experimental 2.4.3 from ftp://people.redhat.com/hp/gnomehide/ if you want.

though in some cases there may be an application bug anyhow
(dialogs without a transient parent set, "xprop | grep TRANSIENT")

Comment 2 Havoc Pennington 2003-01-12 22:38:03 UTC
This is fixed I'm pretty sure, except for apps that don't set TRANSIENT_FOR 
but that's an app bug.

Comment 3 Scott Otterson 2003-06-15 20:27:56 UTC
I updated to redhat 9 and it looks like popups still are disappearing far more
often than the do in sawfish. For example, when I run up2date and the root login
password popup pops up, it immediately dives behind any open windows as soon as
I move the mouse.

Comment 4 Havoc Pennington 2003-10-04 05:19:44 UTC
The root dialog popup appears as a totally unrelated window to any other windows
to metacity. metacity has no way of knowing that it should be kept on top. 
It could set _NET_WM_STATE_ABOVE perhaps, but this has to be done in usermode,
not in metacity.

What you need to do is file bugs against specifics apps where this is a problem,
metacity is doing what it can with the info the apps provide. CC me on the bugs
if the app authors need help knowing what to change.


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