GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 595160
difficult to restore the window which had focus back into the fore when a splashscreen appears
Last modified: 2020-11-06 20:07:24 UTC
Created attachment 143148 [details] standalone splashscreen demo The gimp and OpenOffice.org both launch splashscreen windows with GDK_WINDOW_TYPE_HINT_SPLASHSCREEN hint set. After the splashscreen appears and is displayed in the foreground. If the user clicks on any window titlebar then that window comes to the fore over the splashscreen. If the user clicks on any window contents then that window comes to the fore over the splashscreen *except* if you click on the window which had focus before the splashscreen appeared. To place the window which had the fore before the splash appeared back into the fore you must either click its titlebar, or click on some other window and then click the original window again to get it back into the fore. Ideally clicking the window contents of the original window would bring it back into the fore without requiring to click on the title Standalone demo attached. FWIW compiz exhibits the desired behaviour.
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