Re: [gmane.emacs.help] Re: raise frame no go

[Jan Djärv]

Leo skrev:
> * Jan Djärv (2007-01-04 12:42 +0100) said:
>   ^^^^^^^^^
> > 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.
>
> Havoc Pennington from Redhat has commented on this bug¹:
>
> "I don't know if it's the problem, but the timestamp sent by that
> Emacs code is gibberish, which could break something even if it isn't
> the issue here.  (Assuming I understand the Emacs code.)
>
> I don't believe raise-frame is intended to unconditionally work in
> metacity, btw. This is legitimate window manager behavior and no spec
> requires that the WM unconditionally honors a raise request."

I've added to this bug:

Emacs first sent timestamp 0, but metacity complained about that, so we tried
something else.  The timestamp is not clearly defined in the extended window
manager hints specification.

Note that Emacs in the current CVS (which will be released soon) does not send
_NET_ACTVATE_WINDOW (the code is commented out) as some Metacity version hanged
when we did that.

So currently there is only a call to XRaiseWindow/XFlush.

Is there a way to make Metacity raise windows or shall Emacs just document the
fact that Metacity does not honor XRaiseWindow?


        Jan D.