Bug#340725: metacity: fails to raise windows (from gaim & emacs)

[Tim Cutts]

Sorry for the delay in replying - we're still getting bitten by this bug, so I'll test that upstream patch and let you know.

Tim

On 29 May 2011, at 04:52, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> forwarded 340725 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=567528
> severity 340725 normal
> tags 340725 + upstream patch fixed-upstream
> quit
> 
> Hi Tim,
> 
> Years ago, Nick Craig-Wood wrote[1]:
> 
>> Metacity a while ago stopped raising my gaim windows.  If gaim hasn't
>> got the focus, then the gaim windows don't get raised to the top of my
>> window pile and I don't notice them (I have lots of windows on my
>> desktop)!
>> 
>> This problem can also be demonstrated in emacs also
> 
> and you reported the same, with a tk script to reproduce it.  More
> recently (January of this year), a related upstream bug [2] was fixed.
> Could you check if the patch fixes it (or whether it seems to describe
> the same bug)?
> 
> Thanks for reporting, and sorry for the long silence.
> 
> Regards,
> Jonathan
> 
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/340725
> [2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=567528