GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 349368
Clicking a Window Selector button sometimes minimizes a window when it should raise it
Last modified: 2006-07-31 01:39:39 UTC
Please describe the problem: The Window Selector shows a row of buttons, one per window, which when left-clicked will either raise and focus the window, or minimize it. Ideally, the behavior would be "smart": the window would be raised if it is hidden, and minimized if it is not hidden. But in reality the window is often minimized even if it is mostly hidden when the button is clicked. Steps to reproduce: 1. Arrange two windows such that one mostly hides the other. Make the mostly-hidden window taller and narrower than the one which hides it. 2. Click the Window Selector button for the mostly-hidden window 3. Actual results: The mostly-hidden window is minimized Expected results: The mostly-hidden window is raised and focused Does this happen every time? It depends on the details of the arrangement of the windows Other information:
Can't reproduce this... It should be that any window that is not focused should be brought to top... Perhaps you have some always-on-top issues going? Could you get a screenshot of the windows and describe what window is closed when you click the button?
Created attachment 69935 [details] Requested screenshot showing arrangement of windows which demos bug Here is an example. Clicking on the window selector button for the Firefox window causes Firefox to be minimized. Here I have the metacity focus mode set to "mouse".
> Here I have the metacity focus mode set to "mouse". It seems you've stumbled on a reaally old bug... It seems to only happen in focus-follows-mouse mode... Anyways, thanks for your bug report, please keep those reports coming whenever you find something else that's wrong! *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 90134 ***