Re: raise frame no go

[Leo]

On 2007-09-24 06:53 +0100, Jan Djärv wrote:
>>>> 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?
>>
>
> raise-frame does not do _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW, but x-focus-frame does.
> It would be trivial to add, but the latest discussion indicated that
> people didn't want that.  I.e. raise-frame should just do that,
> raise.  Focus should stay where it was.  But for metacity, there is
> no way to do that.
>
>       Jan D.

I will just forget  this bug. Thanks, Jan.

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