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Bug 465475 - PDF file opened from firefox don't get active, but was showed on top of other
PDF file opened from firefox don't get active, but was showed on top of other
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: general
2.18.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Metacity maintainers list
Metacity maintainers list
Depends on:
Blocks: 149028
 
 
Reported: 2007-08-10 18:49 UTC by Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes
Modified: 2008-03-17 13:45 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.17/2.18

Attachments
the unactive evince window over the others (115.44 KB, image/png)
2007-08-10 18:51 UTC, Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes 		Details

Description Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes 2007-08-10 18:49:14 UTC 
I'm using Ubuntu 7.04 and when I click a PDF link in the browser and ask it to be opened with evince, the evince window stay on top of the other, but the evince window doesn't get the focus.

This behaver is wrong from my POV, since I didn't interact with any other application during the time I ask to open the PDF file.

Moreover, Firefox is really the application that have the focus, since if I click in it's window list representation the firefox window get's minimized.
Comment 1 Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes 2007-08-10 18:51:18 UTC 
Created attachment 93452 [details]
the unactive evince window over the others

This picture shows the problem that I'm having, since I would expect that the evince window be active.
Comment 2 Thomas Thurman 2008-03-16 20:09:46 UTC 
Sorry for the slow turnaround in getting back to you on this.  This would be a Metacity problem, yes.

Does this happen with any other programs you launch from Firefox?

The fact that you can minimise Firefox by clicking its icon on the window list just shows that it isn't already minimised: it shows nothing about its focus.
Comment 3 Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes 2008-03-17 13:44:23 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> Does this happen with any other programs you launch from Firefox?
> 

I don't know, since I can't reproduce this anymore in Ubuntu 7.10
Comment 4 Thomas Thurman 2008-03-17 13:45:53 UTC 
Okay, well, let us know if it happens again, and please come and tell us if anything else goes wrong.  Thanks :)