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Bug 311513 - Consider putting NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_TASKBAR windows in the tab chain
Consider putting NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_TASKBAR windows in the tab chain
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 338660
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: general
trunk
Other All
: High minor
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Assigned To: Metacity maintainers list
Metacity maintainers list
: 314773 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-07-25 18:22 UTC by Soren Sandmann Pedersen
Modified: 2006-04-15 23:55 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.11/2.12


Description Soren Sandmann Pedersen 2005-07-25 18:22:48 UTC 
If in a gnome terminal you press "menu-key + E', then press Alt+Tab, you will 
end up with a focused terminal, and a profile editing window that you can't
focus with the keyboard.

The reason is that the editing window is "skip taskbar", which metacity
interpretes to mean "not in tab chain". Maybe there's a good reason for this 
behavior, but it doesn't seem right to me. If you can focus it with the mouse, 
why not with the keyboard?


Other information:
Comment 1 Elijah Newren 2005-07-26 00:17:49 UTC 
Basically, the idea was that the alt-tab list should match the taskbar list. 
Bug 106249 was where the change occurred.  Strangely, it appears that we didn't
add them to the ctrl-alt-tab list as I thought we had...

I agree that we need to allow focusing any window from the keyboard, but I do
think that the alt-tab list does become unwieldy if we have too many windows. 
Bug 94682 and bug 309481 contain more discussion and suggest an Alt+F6
keybinding for cycling among windows from the same application/group.  Havoc:
should we go with that (and mark 309481 and this bug as dupes of 94682)?
Comment 2 Elijah Newren 2005-08-29 20:26:56 UTC 
*** Bug 314773 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Elijah Newren 2006-04-15 23:55:17 UTC 
I'm consolidating this and other issues into bug 338660.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 338660 ***