[26706] in Athena Bugs
Re: 9.4 Evolution only makes FIRST startup of Firefox the topmost
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Tue Dec 13 16:30:17 2005
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
To: Robert Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>
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Well I'll be dipped in chocolate, and fed to the vicious bugbladdar
beast of Trall!
I guess it'll get fixed in the fullness of time.
-wdc
On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 15:27 -0500, Robert Basch wrote:
> On Dec 13, 2005, at 2:09 PM, Bill Cattey wrote:
> >
> > If Firefox is already running on another desktop, the new Firefox
> > window
> > will appear BELOW evolution.
>
> I have investigated this, and it is actually a bug in firefox, which
> does not
> support startup notification properly. When the new window is created,
> by default its _NET_WM_USER_TIME property (the time of the last user
> activity in the window) gets set to the same as its "parent" window,
> i.e.
> the first firefox window. metacity's "focus stealing" prevention logic
> compares this value to that of the window with focus, and will stack it
> below the focus window if less.
>
> This is a known problem; see:
>
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=223492
>
> Bob
