Metacity - windows are not raised when clicked in panel

mattheweast

Hi there,

I run gentoo stable with gnome and metacity and have recently noticed that windows are not focusing properly when I click on them in the gnome-panel. Basically what happens is that clicking on them will defocus the current window, but not focus the new window. I then have to click a second time to focus the window properly.

I have noticed that this happens in the following situations:

firefox -> gnome-terminal
gnome-terminal -> firefox
xchat -> gnome-terminal
gnome-terminal -> xchat

etc. I've noticed this DOESN'T happen when changing window to/from nautilus.

Hope someone can help me out!!! thanks, Matt

root@eustathios matt # emerge info
Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.10 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.10 i686 Pentium III (Katmai)
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, Apr 29 2005, 08:23:2

]
distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
dev-lang/python: 2.3.5
sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present]
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.8.5-r3, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.4_p6, 1.9.4
sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r7
sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe -ftracer -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe -ftracer -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac alsa apache2 avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr divx dvd dvdread emacs ffmpeg gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib javascript jpeg mp3 mpeg nls nptl nptlonly opengl pam perl png quicktime real ssl truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts userlocales x86 xv xvid"
Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

omnicloud · Guru Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Posts: 550 Location: California

I noticed this too but it didn't really but me. I just got used to double clicking them.

DecayCell · Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 7:48 pm Post subject:

Happens to me too.
There was a thread here that claimed finding a solution, but after a reboot it returned to the previous state...

Epyon · l33t Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 754 Location: NJ, USA

I had the same issue when I was using gnome. It was really annoying.

Genfoo' · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Posts: 112

Did you use gconf to change apps -> metacity -> general ->focus_mode?

Making focus_mode = mouse can make some unexpected thing happen.

DecayCell · Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 12:32 am Post subject:

No, it's set to click.

mattheweast · Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 10:17 am Post subject:

Encouraged by the fact that a couple of people reported the same problem on this thread, I decided to file a bug, https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90993

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noup · l33t Joined: 21 Mar 2003 Posts: 917

i was going insane on this, thinking that i was the only one having this problem... fortunately (or not), i'm not.

i thought that perhaps this was because i'm using gnome-panel-2.6.3, but since it happens to other versions, let's see how it goes..
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steelheart · Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 3:04 pm Post subject:

had the same issue in gnome prior to 2.10 which seems to have it fixed

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omnicloud · Guru Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Posts: 550 Location: California

I think I found the problem, I opened the GConf Editor and went to Apps -> Medacity and enabled "disable_workarounds". When I did this, I didn't notice the problem but a new problem became apparent. XMMS doesn't work properly (read the disable_workarounds description or just try it yourself). Anyway, wither this requires a bug fix in medacity or a fix in xmms to not require the workarounds.

mattheweast · Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 10:00 pm Post subject:

The bug is filed, but maybe they won't fix it as a high priority as 2.10 is probably on the way. In the mean time I've switched to using openbox with gnome instead of metacity.

Its done like this:

omnicloud · Guru Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Posts: 550 Location: California

It's been fixed in 2.10