Bug 84545 – kmail popup dialog boxes do not appear on current desktop (fvwm2)

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Roger Hill-Cottingham 2005-03-08 13:32:32 UTC]

Upgraded to KDE3.3.2 (kmail 1.7.2) with emerge world. Since then all dialog boxes from kmail have not appeared on the desktop that kmail is running in: I have to use the fvwm2 window list to find them. Previous versions (from kde3.3.1 and earlier) have all worked fine; the popup dialog boxes appear on top of the application and get focus.

The same behavour occurs for all KDE applications that I have tried.

Kernel 2.6.8-gentoo-r4, xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4, fvwm-2.5.12

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on any menu item that should bring up a dialog box.


Actual Results:  
The dialog box will not overlay the application and will not have focus and will
not be on the curreent desktop. Use the fvwm2 windowlist function to iconise
then de-iconise to get the dialog top and focus.

Expected Results:  
Dialog box should be on top of the application and have focus without having to
hunt around to find it.

amber ~ # emerge info
Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/amd64/2004.3, gcc-3.3.4,
glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.8-gentoo-r4 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r4 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Mar  4 2005, 22:13:23)]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.9.4, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.4_p6, 1.8.5-r3
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.10-r4
virtual/os-headers:  2.4.21-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref
/usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/
/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/mirror/distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/
ftp://194.117.158.29/mirrors/gentoo http://194.117.158.27 http://194.117.158.30
ftp://194.117.158.30/mirrors/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/home/roger/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X acpi alsa arts berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt curl esd f77 fam flac
font-server fortran gdbm gif gphoto2 gpm gtk guile imagemagick imlib ipv6 java
jp2 jpeg kde libwww lzw lzw-tiff mad mikmod motif mozilla ncurses nls oggvorbis
opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt readline sdl slang ssl tcltk tcpd tetex
tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales xml xml2 xmms xpm
xrandr xv zlib"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Gregorio Guidi (RETIRED) 2005-03-10 06:12:24 UTC]

bug 84387 also happens with amd64 and fvwm, so I assume it's the same bug...


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 84387 ***