Re: raise frame no go

[Leo]

On 2007-01-06 12:32 +0000, Jan Djärv wrote:
> 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.

Has this been fixed?

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