Bug 16951

Summary:	sticky doesn't work in metacity
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Celestial Wizard <celestialwizard>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Celestial Wizard 2003-03-06 05:08:48 UTC

Running metacity [2.4.34], xmms [1.2.7-r15] is not sticky when set.

CTRL+S or selecting Sticky from preferences has no effect.

xmms reports that sticky has been turned on.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select Sticky from preferences or use shortcut key
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
xmms reports that sticky is set, but metacity does not honor it

Expected Results:  
be available on all workspaces - sticky

mrpointy glibc # emerge info
Portage 2.0.47-r8 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.2_pre1-r0)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.19-gentoo-r10-cw i686 Pentium III (Coppermine)
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://public.planetmirror.com.au/pub/gentoo/
http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ALPHA/wine/development/"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm arts avi crypt cups encode gif jpeg kde libg++ mikmod mmx
mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib directfb
gtkhtml alsa gdbm berkdb slang readline bonobo svga ggi tcltk java guile mysql
X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gnome gtk qt motif
opengl mozilla ldap"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
FEATURES="sandbox buildpkg ccache"

Comment 1 Markus Bertheau (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-03-07 19:07:42 UTC

This is because xmms doesn't follow the wm spec (http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/wm-spec/1.3/html/). You can press Alt-Space to open the window menu and select "Put on all workspaces" to achieve the same effect.

Comment 2 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-09-28 14:09:45 UTC

reclosing