Re: raise frame no go

["Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>]

Leo skrev:
> 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?= <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
>>>> Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
>>>> 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?
> 

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.