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Bug 346784 - Non-modal dialogue windows are not raised when they get the focus
Non-modal dialogue windows are not raised when they get the focus
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: general
2.10.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Metacity maintainers list
Metacity maintainers list
Depends on:
Blocks: 155452
 
 
Reported: 2006-07-06 16:36 UTC by Rob Arthan
Modified: 2020-11-06 20:06 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.9/2.10


Description Rob Arthan 2006-07-06 16:36:59 UTC 
If an application has multipe non-modal dialogue windows, then users expect that when one of the dialogue windows gets the focus it will be raised to the top of the stack for the application, but it doesn't.

You can reproduce this with the Edit/Find and Help/About dialogues of Gnumeric, for example. The second dialogue to be popped up will stay on top when you give focus to the first one (either by clicking or by mousing over it according to the Window Preferences).

This problem doesn't matter much with application like Gnumeric which don't have more than on non-modal dialogue up in normal use, but it's not good for applications like the xmbdfed font editor that use a multi-dialogue model.
Comment 1 Elijah Newren 2007-10-04 00:33:50 UTC 
Sounds similar to bug 306372; but I should mark it as another blocker on our stacking bugs...will do that in a minute.
Comment 2 André Klapper 2020-11-06 20:06:23 UTC 
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