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Bug 149745 - metacity doesn't give focus to new panel/nautilus windows
metacity doesn't give focus to new panel/nautilus windows
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: 2004-08-09 18:17 UTC by Jonathan Blandford
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.7/2.8


Description Jonathan Blandford 2004-08-09 18:17:07 UTC 
With click-to-focus and metacity-2.8.2:

1) bring up a terminal, and give it focus
2) start either a new nautilus window (by running nautilus) or bring up the "Run
Application" dialog

The new window will appear, but it won't have focus.  However, Hitting Alt-Tab
lists the focus order as if it did have focus, and switches focus to the terminal
Comment 1 Elijah Newren 2004-08-09 18:34:27 UTC 
The nautilus problem is a combination of
apps-launched-from-the-terminal-dont-provide-startup-notification and
apps-aren't-forwarding-startup-notification-to-main-instance problems.  We need
a separate bug for the first of those (it was discussed in bug 118372 with a fix
proposed by Soeren).  The latter problem is discussed in bug 149028.

The run application dialog problem (and other panel applets) are also being
discussed in bug 149028.

The problem with the windows appearing in the front of the alt tab list despite
being denied focus is bug 149366, which has been fixed.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 149028 ***
Comment 2 Elijah Newren 2004-08-09 18:50:27 UTC 
Also, note that there's a patch to disable the focus-stealing-prevention logic
(as a temporary workaround) in bug 149276 if it bothers you too much.