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Bug 364059 - Dialogs of background applications appear in the front
Dialogs of background applications appear in the front
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 357702
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: general
2.16.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Metacity maintainers list
Metacity maintainers list
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-10-22 00:43 UTC by Sebastian Heinlein
Modified: 2006-10-22 04:31 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.15/2.16

Attachments
a small python script (462 bytes, text/plain)
2006-10-22 00:44 UTC, Sebastian Heinlein 		Details

Description Sebastian Heinlein 2006-10-22 00:43:37 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
If the main window of an application is covered by other windows and the app pop ups a dialog, the dialog will appear in front of all windows - but the main window will stay in the background.

Steps to reproduce:
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Actual results:


Expected results:
The dialog should be in fornt of the main window, but on the same level as the main window.

Does this happen every time?
yes

Other information:
Comment 1 Sebastian Heinlein 2006-10-22 00:44:34 UTC 
Created attachment 75166 [details]
a small python script

run the script, cover the main window with another window and wait two seconds until the dialog pops up in the front.
Comment 2 Elijah Newren 2006-10-22 04:31:26 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 357702 ***