Gvim window activated by mutt doesn't gain focus

[Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao]

Olivier Fourdan wrote on Jan, 10:
> > I was submitting the bug report on gvim and it occurred to me: wouldn't it 
> > be a valid feature an xfwm4 config option to ignore the timestamp from 
> > NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW and always give focus ? The "rule of least surprise" may 
> > be worth abiding to even if that means patronizing misbehaved applications 
> > such as gvim. A config option might be a fair compromise.

> The thing is that the behaviour may be perfectly valid, especially for 
> focus stealing prevention.

> To make it simple, if you pass 0 as timestamp, it means current time, 
> whatever it may be, but if you pass a valid timestamp, it simply means 
> give focus *if* it makes sense, if if the event is not too old. So the 
> simple fix would be to gvim to pass 0 as the timestamp. But maybe that 
> is not the right fix in all cases for gvim, maybe there are cases where 
> the timestamp is useful and required. I do not know.

> So, I'd rather stay with what the standard says. Maybe it's its use that 
> is not perfect. Maybe it's not even a gvim bug bug a gtk bug (making the 
> assumption that you gvim is compiled with the gtk2 gui).

> Add options for everything and anything would drives nowhere (most 
> people don't even know what the existing options are btw). Better fix what 
> is wrong (may it be xfwm4, xfce, gtk+, or even gvim).

I'm convinced that gvim/gtk2 are using the standard incorrectly. I submitted 
the bug against Debian package vim-gtk. I ranked it as a normal bug, so I 
don't know if they'll be so responsive and concerned as you Xfce guys, and
deal with this quickly. You all seem to care a lot about the software you 
maintain. I haven't seen this to this extent with any other FLOSS. It's really 
commendable.

I'll post back on this thread whatever comes out of the gvim bug, for the sake 
of completeness.

Thank you very much for your patience, Olivier
Paulo