[26639] in Athena Bugs
sun4 9.4.18: metacity and zephyr
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laura Baldwin)
Wed Sep 28 10:21:48 2005
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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 10:21:12 -0400
From: Laura Baldwin <boojum@mit.edu>
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Type and version: Sun-Blade-100 9.4.18 (with mkserv)
Display type: ifb
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: metacity
What were you trying to do?
Clarify the "reverse stacking is random in metacity" weirdness.
This is completely replicable for me, if a little hard to describe:
What's wrong:
I reverse stack my zephyrs.
I have focus-follows-mouse in metacity, but not automatic window
raising on focus.
I have a window (gnome-term or Eterm or emacs do this - xterm and
firefox do not) in the same area of the screen that the zephyrs are
in. I lower the window underneath a set of zephyrs. I switch
workspaces. I switch back.
*If* the mouse (and thus focus) is in the lowered window, it raises
itself above the zephyrs (but not above any other windows that it's
below), and the zephyrs reverse their order.
Note that if focus is in any jumping-forward window, all the
jumping-forward windows jump forward. That is, I have an Eterm in
my bottom left corner, and another (or an emacs window) in my top
left corner. Both are under zephyrs. I switch workspaces back and
forth, and focus is in the bottom left Eterm; both Eterms jump on
top of the zephyrs and reverse-order them. However, if focus is in
an xterm or on the background, neither Eterm jumps forward.
What should have happened:
Things should stay in the order I left them in.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
