Bug 303911 – compiz-0.8.4-r2 window focus problem on XFCE4

• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Dominik Kozaczko 2010-02-07 19:22:04 UTC]

After upgrading compiz from 0.8.4 to latest version found in portage (0.8.4-r2) I can't get windows to work properly. When I minimize a window and then click on the tab in panel it does not pup up but the title gets bold instead. It only works when clicking between windows of the same application like Firefox. Changing window using alt-tab works ok.

Removing old settings and creating them from the beginning does not help either. I also tried downgrading but without luck, so it's very strange to me right now.

Reproducible: Always





Here are the packages I upgraded recently:

x11-wm/compiz
x11-plugins/compiz-plugins-main
app-text/poppler-data
x11-libs/libcompizconfig
dev-python/compizconfig-python
media-libs/sdl-image
sys-apps/util-linux


$ emerge --info
Portage 2.2_rc62 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.10.1-r1, 2.6.32-gentoo x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.32-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_Phenom-tm-_9650_Quad-Core_Processor-with-gentoo-2.0.1
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:30:01 +0000
distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled]
app-shells/bash:     4.0_p35
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.9-r2
dev-lang/python:     2.6.4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.1.0_beta1
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.4-r3
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1
sys-apps/openrc:     0.6.0-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc:       4.1.2, 4.3.4
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6b
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.27-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -msse3 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb /var/spool/torque"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -msse3 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.po.opole.pl http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LANG="pl_PL.utf8"
LC_ALL="pl_PL.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="pl en"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/portage/layman/cwiid /usr/local/portage/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage/layman/science"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 avahi bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr eds emboss encode evo fam firefox flac fortran gdbm geoip gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv ipv6 java jpeg jpeg2k libnotify mad mikmod mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session smp spell spl sse sse2 sse3 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd threads thunar tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis x264 xinerama xml xorg xprint xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" APACHE2_MPMS="worker" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse joystick evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="pl en" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv vesa" 
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Romain Perier (RETIRED) 2010-02-10 08:48:45 UTC]

Could you try to downgrade to x11-wm/compiz-0.8.4 and to x11-plugins/compiz-plugins-main-0.8.4 (no revisions) ? we patched both recently.

and please get back us, thanks in advance.

[Comment 2 Romain Perier (RETIRED) 2010-02-10 08:50:16 UTC]

Ps: some strange behaviours too, unable to grab_keyboard on pinentry, but works perfectly with metacity, and titles still get bold in gnome-panel, except if I click on them....

[Comment 3 Dominik Kozaczko 2010-02-11 22:20:09 UTC]

I downgraded compiz, compiz-plugins-main and compiz-plugin-extra, with "gnome" use-lfag switched off and experimented a bit with focusing windows.

Downgrading did not help, so I assume this must be related to some other library (poppler?).

During experimenting I observed this:

If you activate a window, you can't switch focus to other windows using buttons in panel. Sometimes windows are activated after maximizing them from the panel, others are activated after a click. Windows are deactivated after minimizing, so you can switch to other windows with ease using buttons in panel until you click one that gets autoactivated.

Very strange.

[Comment 4 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) 2010-04-03 07:06:38 UTC]

Can you please test with compiz-0.8.6?

[Comment 5 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) 2010-06-06 22:44:48 UTC]

No feedback. Please reopen if you can test and still get this issue.