Shy Applications

[Paul Dickson]

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:36:40 -0800, Miles Lane wrote:

> On 1/19/06, Paul Dickson <paul at permanentmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 01:50:24 -0500, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> > > Yes, I have noticed it also...no clue as to why.
> >
> > With the exception of gimp, it seems that if I start a program from a
> > Gnome menu it gets placed in front, but if I start the same program from
> > gnome-terminal (or any other program) it gets placed behind (gnomines,
> > gnome-sudoku, and gweled, abiword, kjumpingcube, and bittorrent).  I also
> > tried about a half-dozen of the system-config-* tools (some allow the
> > window manager to float the window to the side so it can be seen when
> > hidden like system-config-lvm) and they all do it.
> >
> > Program's like sylpheed seem to carry this throughout.  Opening the config
> > or filter settings from the summary window and then closing it, the
> > summary window gets placed in back of the message view and folder view
> > windows.
> >
> > Openmotif programs like xephem seem immune, but both kde and gnome
> > applications get hit by this.
> 
> Hi Paul,
> Have you submitted a bug report?  I am seeing exactly the same
> behavior (apps started from gnome-terminal are placed behind the
> gnome-terminal window I started the program from).  By the way,
> this looks like a problem that needs fixing upstream, because I
> just noticed this happening on my Ubuntu Dapper installation
> (Dapper+updates is to Ubuntu as FC5t2+updates is to Fedora Core).

I was waiting for info as to which package to file against.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=178389 against metacity.

	-Paul