129731 – metacity 2.14 opens new windows underneath terminal windows

Bug 129731 - metacity 2.14 opens new windows underneath terminal windows

Summary: metacity 2.14 opens new windows underneath terminal windows

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] GNOME (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team

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Blocks:	119872
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Reported:	2006-04-12 12:23 UTC by Carl Michal
Modified:	2006-04-20 16:15 UTC (History)
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Description Carl Michal 2006-04-12 12:23:40 UTC

When applications are launched from the command line in gnome 2.14, metacity puts the new windows below the terminal from which they were launched.  This is amazingly annoying behaviour - often making new windows completely invisible and requiring some effort in finding them.  There is a patch that should fix this behaviour at:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326159
and apparently this is being considered for inclusion in 2.14.1:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/release-team/2006-April/msg00019.html

I would suggest this patch be included in a 2.14.0-r1

Comment 1 Johan Martinsson 2006-04-19 01:07:18 UTC

This is fixed in metacity 2.14.3, so now we just need a version bump in portage...
Copying the 2.14.2 ebuild works perfectly.

Comment 2 foser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-04-19 03:53:21 UTC

I think the patch should go in 2.14.0 version as well, it's a rather big change of behaviour.

Comment 3 John N. Laliberte (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-04-20 16:15:07 UTC

2.14.3 now in portage.

thanks.