Focus problem with java applications?

[Bjørn T Johansen]

On Tue, 15 May 2012 16:14:35 +0200
Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Bjørn T Johansen <btj at havleik.no> wrote:
> 
> > This isn't a problem caused by XFCE or? Anyway to find the guilty one?
> 
> 
> It is a problem between Java and the window manager, xfwm4. Focus
> management is a complex matter in X11 and Java makes it even more complex
> by trying various tricks and hacks using/changing the "transient" property
> on its dialogs..
> 
> So as much as I dislike Java and all its trickery, I am not going to
> download 130Mb of proprietary software just to investigate one issue, so I
> would need a simple reproducer otherwise chances are that I won't fix it.
> Since I am not a Java developer myself and I no intention of becoming one,
> this simple reproducer needs to come from someone else.
> 
> Cheers,
> Olivier
> 

oki. I'll see if I can make a small application where I can reproduce this problem... :)

BTJ

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