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Bug 621848 - Window loses focus when showing transient windows that do not take focus on map
Window loses focus when showing transient windows that do not take focus on map
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: Focus
trunk
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Thomas Thurman
Metacity maintainers list
Depends on:
Blocks: 151996
 
 
Reported: 2010-06-17 03:43 UTC by Karl Tomlinson
Modified: 2020-11-06 20:09 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Karl Tomlinson 2010-06-17 03:43:07 UTC 
Window loses focus when showing transient windows that do not take focus on map

When a window with focus shows a transient window that does not take focus on
map, the (parent) window loses its focus.

This happens because of this code
http://git.gnome.org/browse/metacity/tree/src/core/window.c?id=b272c4ca7f3a784d011eea5c3fd348011f8558b3#n2134
which was added
http://git.gnome.org/browse/metacity/commit/?id=2a5689911f1b1912662d05bc25d53dd53e31ba2c
for bug 151996.

This probably makes sense for modal dialogs, but it seems that other utility
windows were not considered.
Comment 1 Mike Ratcliffe 2012-07-16 19:31:05 UTC 
This is quite an issue for Firefox Developer Tools. It would be awesome if somebody could take a look at this.

See:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=771169
Comment 2 André Klapper 2020-11-06 20:09:08 UTC 
bugzilla.gnome.org is being replaced by gitlab.gnome.org. We are closing all old bug reports in Bugzilla which have not seen updates for many years.

If you can still reproduce this issue in a currently supported version of GNOME (currently that would be 3.38), then please feel free to report it at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/metacity/-/issues/

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