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Bug 397599 - Properties window appears beneath main window
Properties window appears beneath main window
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: alacarte
Classification: Applications
Component: general
0.11.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Alacarte Maintainer(s)
Alacarte Maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-01-17 12:05 UTC by Diego Escalante Urrelo (not reading bugmail)
Modified: 2008-02-17 06:02 UTC
See Also:
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Description Diego Escalante Urrelo (not reading bugmail) 2007-01-17 12:05:43 UTC 
When I right click and then select Properties over an item, the properties window will pop beneath the Alacarte window.

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I'm on feisty, not all the system is up to date, but relevant gnome bits are. Alacarte is 0.11.0.
Comment 1 Travis Watkins 2007-01-19 15:10:04 UTC 
Will try to figure this out.
Comment 2 VF 2007-03-17 09:13:40 UTC 
Unmaximized Alacarte Window on Metacity -> Window appears adjacent to Alacarte
Maximized Alacarte Window on Metacity -> Window appears directly under Alacarte, unfocused
Unmaximized or Maximized Alacarte Window on Compiz -> Window always appears unfocused under Alacarte
Comment 3 Rob Bradford 2007-03-24 23:15:07 UTC 
Very strangely I only see this behaviour if I run Alacarte from the menu (or by right click -> edit menus on the main menu thing.) 

If run from the terminal the window not only appears correctly but it is also centred on the parent whereas when fired from an Alacarte launched through the menu the gnome-desktop-item-edit appears in the top left.
Comment 4 Rob Bradford 2007-03-24 23:19:51 UTC 
I've discovered that this incorrect behaviour only shows up when StartupNotify=true is in the .desktop file. If this is set to false then things behave correctly.

This also explains why this behaviour is not seen when running from a terminal.

For now I suggest switching the alacarte.desktop file to contain StartupNotify=false and filing a bug against the startup notification stuff because this really doesn't seem the right behaviour.
Comment 5 Cosimo Cecchi 2007-07-18 20:38:41 UTC 
I'm using Gnome 2.19.5 and Alacarte 0.11.3 and this is gone; i think it can be closed.
Comment 6 Jared Moore 2008-02-17 00:39:12 UTC 
Not fixed for me (Gnome 2.20.1, Alacarte 0.11.3, Ubuntu 7.10).
Comment 7 Travis Watkins 2008-02-17 06:02:18 UTC 
This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.