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Bug 401547 - Multiple gnome-terminals don't have the same X group property
Multiple gnome-terminals don't have the same X group property
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-terminal
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
: gnome-2-24
Assigned To: GNOME Terminal Maintainers
GNOME Terminal Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-01-28 02:29 UTC by Dean Sas
Modified: 2008-08-23 19:19 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Dean Sas 2007-01-28 02:29:17 UTC 
Using ALT + F6 to cycle between windows of the same application only displays the current gnome-terminal, rather than all of them.

This bug was originally reported at https://launchpad.net/bugs/72732

Comment 1 on LP says "It appears to me that the problem is that multiple gnome-terminals don't have the same "group" property as one another."
Comment 1 Mariano Suárez-Alvarez 2007-01-28 04:05:00 UTC 
gnome-terminal does this because, at the time, people were not using this; cf. bug 115994. Metacity does this ALT+F6 since april last year, though.
Comment 2 Michel Alexandre Salim 2008-06-01 21:30:15 UTC 
Could the patch be undone, or failing that, be made into an option? Now that Metacity implement cycling within windows of the same application, it should be an option, if not the default.

FWIW, OS X always groups windows by application; Cmd+~ toggles between windows in the same group (vs. Cmd+TAB which toggles between all windows). Right now I can approximate OS X behavior by making the taskbar always group, and by using Xfce terminal rather than GNOME Terminal.
Comment 3 Christian Persch 2008-08-19 12:54:19 UTC 
Just for reference, this is the commit from bug 115994: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnome-terminal/trunk/src/terminal-window.c?r1=1383&r2=1382&pathrev=1383
Comment 4 Christian Persch 2008-08-23 19:19:15 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.