Annoying bug regarding active sticky windows in Xfwm4

Olivier Fourdan fourdan at xfce.org
Mon Feb 26 21:03:51 CET 2007


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Mi?u Moldovan wrote:

> OK, so after a few hours of usage I realize that the setup is still not
> usable. The sticky Gaim window is not stealing focus anymore but it
> stays on top and the fact that the windows below it have focus doesn't
> really help. Any more ideas? I've disabled any Gaim plugin that has
> anything to do with notifications.
> 
> More so, I think I can reproduce this problem with an xterm window with
> default settings and focus stealing prevention (I've created a test user
> just for this test case):
> 
> 1) Open two windows (eg. two Thunar windows) in two workspaces of your
> choice.
> 
> 2) Open an xterm window in the first workspace and make it sticky. It is
> the active window.
> 
> 3) Make the Thunar window active in the first workspace, the xterm
> becomes inactive and *below* the new active window.
> 
> 4) Change to another workspace where you previously had an active
> Thunar, xterm is inactive but over the active Thunar window (I don't
> like this either). In that workspace make xterm active and then the
> Thunar window active sending xterm below the new active window.
> 
> 4) Change back to the previous workspace, xterm is inactive but *on top*
> of the active Thunar window. Damn, it was supposed to be below...

Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce that behavior here... There could be a
race condition.

> I'll be happy to provide more info if needed, fill a bug report if
> appropriate, 

Yes, please, a bug report would be more appropriate to follow these issues.

TIA
Olivier.
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