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Bug 149361 - Opening New Window From Panel Not Getting Focused
Opening New Window From Panel Not Getting Focused
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 149028
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: general
2.8.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Metacity maintainers list
Metacity maintainers list
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-08-05 01:18 UTC by Dennis Cranston
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
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Description Dennis Cranston 2004-08-05 01:18:20 UTC 
1.  Add launcher for gnome-terminal to gnome-panel.
2.  Add launcher for 'Browse Filesystem' to gnome-panel.
3.  Click the gnome-terminal launcher.  
    (Note: Gnome-terminal window opens and has focus.)
4.  Click on the desktop background.   
    (Note: Gnome-terminal window does not have focus.)
5.  Click the 'Browse Filesystem' launcher.
    (Note: File Browser window opens and does not have focus.)

Gnome-panel has the focus, but I would expect that the 'File Browser' window
should be focused instead.
Comment 1 Elijah Newren 2004-08-05 01:50:53 UTC 
If you launch a second gnome-terminal (which really doesn't launch a second
instance but merely tells the first to open another window), then when the new
gnome-terminal window appears it won't have focus either.  This is a problem for
all apps that contact previously running versions of themselves and tell them to
open a new window, i.e. gnome-terminal, nautilus, mozilla, etc.

There's a patch in bug 149276 that will disable the focus prevention logic and
just focus all new windows which you can use until we're able to fix all those
applications.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 149028 ***