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Bug 587921 - alt-tab broken with background windows on other desktops
alt-tab broken with background windows on other desktops
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 535887
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: general
2.26.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Metacity maintainers list
Metacity maintainers list
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-07-06 20:08 UTC by Johannes Berg
Modified: 2009-11-18 20:14 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.25/2.26


Description Johannes Berg 2009-07-06 20:08:31 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
When an application creates a new window, but this window gets to be in the background for some reason like the user focusing another window before it opens, this new window is part of the alt-tab list, but behaves very oddly, on other desktops.

Steps to reproduce:
1. manage to get a window into the background
2. switch desktops
3. try to use alt-tab
4. be confused


Actual results:
am confused by alt-tab order

Expected results:
no confusion, the background window is on a different desktop so doesn't show up in alt-tab

Does this happen every time?
yes

Other information:
Comment 1 Owen Taylor 2009-11-18 20:13:02 UTC 
Lots of discussion on bug 536769

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 536769 ***
Comment 2 Owen Taylor 2009-11-18 20:14:02 UTC 
Sorry, wrong bug #

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 535887 ***