Re: raise frame no go

[Jan Djärv]

Eli Zaretskii skrev:
>> Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 12:42:19 +0100
>> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden
>>
>> Metacity (the default Gnome window manager)  is a complete mess when it 
>> comes 
>> to raise frame.  Some versions works, some don't.  Some require the code 
>> below, some don't.  In some configurations (i.e. focus on click vs. focus on 
>> mouse) raise frame works, in some raise frame don't work.
>>
>> We must give up on creating workarounds for Metacity, and just tell people 
>> that metacity is buggy.  Ufortunately they have to figure out a workaround 
>> for 
>> themselves and their specific verion/configuration of metacity.
> 
> How about writing an entry for etc/PROBLEMS about this?

In the bug created by Leo, http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=392889,
the recommendation from the Gnome people seems to be that we use
_NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW but with a proper timestamp (this was wrong in Emacs).  If
some version of Metacity hangs, it is no fault of Emacs and should be handeled
as a Metacity bug.

On the other hand, it is late in the game (pretest-wise) and maybe a note in
etc/PROBLEMS is good enough for the release.

Comments?

        Jan D.