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Re: raise frame no go
From: |
Leo |
Subject: |
Re: raise frame no go |
Date: |
Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:35:49 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110007 Emacs/23.0.50 (20070922) Fedora 7 (gnu/linux) |
On 2007-01-06 12:32 +0000, Jan Djärv wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii skrev:
>>> Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 12:42:19 +0100
>>> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= <address@hidden>
>>> Cc: address@hidden
>
>>>
>>> Metacity (the default Gnome window manager) is a complete mess when it
>>> comes
>>> to raise frame. Some versions works, some don't. Some require the code
>>> below, some don't. In some configurations (i.e. focus on click vs. focus
>>> on
>>> mouse) raise frame works, in some raise frame don't work.
>>>
>>> We must give up on creating workarounds for Metacity, and just tell people
>>> that metacity is buggy. Ufortunately they have to figure out a workaround
>>> for
>>> themselves and their specific verion/configuration of metacity.
>>
>> How about writing an entry for etc/PROBLEMS about this?
>
> In the bug created by Leo, http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=392889,
> the recommendation from the Gnome people seems to be that we use
> _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW but with a proper timestamp (this was wrong in Emacs). If
> some version of Metacity hangs, it is no fault of Emacs and should be handeled
> as a Metacity bug.
>
> On the other hand, it is late in the game (pretest-wise) and maybe a note in
> etc/PROBLEMS is good enough for the release.
>
> Comments?
>
> Jan D.
Has this been fixed?
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