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Bug 356829 - Focus shouldn't auto-raise fullscreen windows with sloppy focus
Focus shouldn't auto-raise fullscreen windows with sloppy focus
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: general
2.16.x
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Metacity maintainers list
Metacity maintainers list
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-09-20 03:16 UTC by Max Strini
Modified: 2020-11-06 20:06 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.15/2.16


Description Max Strini 2006-09-20 03:16:04 UTC 
When other windows are put in front of a fullscreen window, and "select windows when the mouse moves over them" is on, the fullscreen window will reclaim all screen space and obscure the others as soon as the mouse pointer leaves them.  This is aggravating and confusing.  Screen-domination should be treated as separate from keyboard focus, so that a click is required to allow a fullscreen window to cover everything else, even in sloppy-focus mode.  This is consistent with the behavior of non-fullscreen windows in this mode (i.e. they only go to the top when you click on them) and it's hard for me to imagine anyone not preferring this.


Other information:
Comment 1 Thomas Thurman 2008-03-09 03:36:18 UTC 
Yeah, that looks pretty broken to me.  I'd never noticed, but I don't use sloppy focus.  I'll try and investigate in a bit.
Comment 2 Elijah Newren 2008-03-13 00:40:42 UTC 
This is actually quite a bit like the mouse_mode feature; that'd probably be the right way to implement it and would like save us from a couple nasty race conditions in the handling of fullscreen windows.
Comment 3 gbug 2011-06-04 04:39:48 UTC 
reproduces in metacity 2.30.1 (as shipped by Debian)
Comment 4 André Klapper 2020-11-06 20:06:44 UTC 
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