GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 340273
"Force quit" dialog triggered unnecessarily
Last modified: 2006-05-01 13:32:48 UTC
Please describe the problem: When I close an application using the 'X' button on its titlebar and the app responds by a dialog (usually a confirmation and/or an opportunity to save unsaved changes), Metacity triggers its "Force quit" dialog and steals the focus before I can read the message, let alone respond to it. Steps to reproduce: 1. Open gedit (for example). 2. Type something in it, but don't save the document. 3. Quit gedit by clicking on the window's 'X' button. 4. gedit pops up a dialog asking if you want to save your work. Actual results: Shortly after gedit's dialog has appeared (about 2 seconds), Metacity pops up a "Warning" dialog which offers to "force quit" gedit. The new dialog appears on top of the previous one and steals its focus. Expected results: No interference from metacity during what is the normal behaviour of the application (here gedit). Does this happen every time? Yes. Other information: I'm running Ubuntu Dapper for AMD 64, up to date as of 2004-04-30. Metacity package is 2.14.3-0ubuntu1. Don't know if Debian and/or Ubuntu specific patches can explain this behaviour. I don't remember seeing this in Breezy (well the force qui dialog was there, but I don't remember it being so annoying).
Someone else that gets this using dapper, interesting. Any chance you can try upstream versions of metacity, gedit, and gtk+ instead of the debian/ubuntu patched ones? *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 338983 ***