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Bug 150683 - Window focus inconsistency
Window focus inconsistency
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 149589
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: general
2.8.x
Other Linux
: High minor
: ---
Assigned To: Metacity maintainers list
Metacity maintainers list
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-08-20 23:03 UTC by scott
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.7/2.8


Description scott 2004-08-20 23:03:09 UTC 
1. With no windows open, Launch an application (for example, gedit).

2. Now launch a 2nd application (for example, gnome-terminal). At this step, it
seems to me that gnome-terminal should have focus, but it does not. Neither does
gedit. Since I launched these two applications from the gnome-panel, the
gnome-panel has focus.

3. Click on the 1st application's window button (in this case gedit) from the
window list. At this time, gedit correctly has focus.

4. Click on the 2nd application's window button (in this case gnome-terminal)
from the window list. At this time, the gnome-terminal does NOT get the focus,
as gedit keeps it. However, the gnome-terminal window does move in front of
gedit's window. 

5. Then, clicking on the gnome-terminal window correctly gives it focus.


I've noticed this since moving to gnome 2.7 from fedora's testing repository.
The same issue affects most, if not all, the focus handling tasks and I find
myself clicking multiple times on the workspace switcher, etc.
Comment 1 Elijah Newren 2004-08-20 23:34:44 UTC 
What are the exact versions of Metacity and Libwnck that you are using, and what
focus mode do you have enabled (click, sloppy, or mouse)?  It sounds like you
are experiencing bug 149589 (which has been fixed), but I'd need to know version
numbers before looking into this further.
Comment 2 scott 2004-08-20 23:48:40 UTC 
Hi Elijah,

I'm using:

metacity-2.8.2-1
libwnck-2.7.91-1

my focus mode is set to "click"

thanks,
scott
Comment 3 Elijah Newren 2004-08-21 20:00:33 UTC 
Yeah, this is the same as bug 149589, which only appeared in Metacity 2.8.2
(without the fix in bug 120100 that went into that release, the bug you are
experiencing would never appear).  So, please upgrade to metacity 2.8.3 or apply
the patch in 149589 and this bug will go away for you.  Thanks for following up.

I'm reopening in order to mark as a duplicate.
Comment 4 Elijah Newren 2004-08-21 20:00:48 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 149589 ***
Comment 5 scott 2004-08-21 21:35:34 UTC 
Perfect! I upgraded to 2.8.3 and the problem is resolved.

Thanks for your help,

scott