Metacity and terminals

[Marcin Grabda]

Ron Yorston wrote:
> I installed fc5t3 last night, mostly without incident.  I haven't had
> much time to use it yet so there are one or two things I'll need to
> look into and may report later.  However, one immediate thing.
>
> There's an experimental patch to metacity that causes GUI applications
> started from a terminal to appear underneath the terminal window.
> Applications started from a launcher appear on top, as before.  The
> upstream rationale for this and the Red Hat Bugzilla entry for it are
> here:
>
>    http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326159
>    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=178389
>
> I'm a developer.  I spend a lot of time working in terminal windows
> doing things like 'vi prog.c; make; ./prog'.  Once I've typed './prog'
> I expect my sparkly new program to appear so that I can see if my evil
> kludge has finally nailed the latest bug the users have been (quite
> unjustifiably) complaining about.  I don't want to have to drag the
> sparkly new program up from underneath my terminal window.
>
> The first time this happens it's a surprise.  The second time it's
> irrirating.  After the twentieth time I'll be saying Very Rude Things
> Indeed about metacity, its maintainer, his family and their pets.  And
> I'm sure Elijah wouldn't want that.
>
> I really can't think of any case where I'd want to start an application
> from a terminal window and not have it appear on top.  For the way I
> work the new behaviour is always wrong and it isn't even possible to
> turn it off.
>
> I'd really, really, really like to see this experimental patch
> reverted.  Or at least have some way to configure it, preferably with
> the old behaviour as default.
>
> Ron
>
>   
I agree. It's really irritating.

Marcin

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