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

[Jonathan Nieder]

forwarded 340725 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=567528
severity 340725 normal
tags 340725 + upstream patch fixed-upstream
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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