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Bug 123566 - should not allow modal window to be minimized
should not allow modal window to be minimized
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 126489
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: general
2.6.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Metacity maintainers list
Metacity maintainers list
: 140948 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: 164841
 
 
Reported: 2003-09-30 16:31 UTC by Dan Winship
Modified: 2005-01-25 23:56 UTC
See Also:
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Description Dan Winship 2003-09-30 16:31:21 UTC 
I logged in, and epiphany got restarted with its previous state. One of
the pages I'd been looking at when I logged out requires authentication,
so epiphany popped up a modal password dialog. However, that window had
been iconified when I quit, so it (and its password dialog) were iconified
now. This meant that none of my other epiphany windows would work
properly, because the password dialog was considered to be active and on
top, even though I couldn't see it (even in the window list).
Comment 1 Gareth Carroll 2004-04-23 16:50:01 UTC 
I have seen the same thing when I have java Jframes that are minimised.  If they
pop up a modal dialogue (JOptionPane.showOptionPane, for example), then the
dialogue is not shown on the main screen.  Most other window managers seem to
display this dialogue.
Comment 2 Elijah Newren 2005-01-25 17:34:52 UTC 
I believe a patch such as the one in bug 164716 that also handled app-modal
dialogs (and if apps would correctly use modality--see Havoc's comment in
164716) would be a better fix for this issue.  (Although, we do have to double
check that we unminimize any such window as well as changing its workspace). 
That is addressed in bug 126489, so I'm going to mark this as a duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 126489 ***
Comment 3 Elijah Newren 2005-01-25 23:56:25 UTC 
*** Bug 140948 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***