Dialog-windows don't get focus

[Eric Feliksik]

> I'm running an up-to-this-date hoary, and for a while already I see
> that when I try to close some apps, the appearing dialog window has
> no focus.
> 
> Examples of programs where this happens are firefox (have multiple
> tabs open and close with x or alt-f4), gedit (have an unsaved
> document and try to close) and OpenOffice (try to close an unsaved
> document in oowriter).
> 
> I installed Ubuntu at my girlfriends computer this week, and at here
> place it was the same. (Except that after updating openoffice that
> program would not start anymore - but that's another topic. Maybe
> more on that later).
> 
> Anybody else sees this? I hope this focus-problem can be recognised
> and solved.
> 

I sent the above message to ubuntu-users, but got no reply. I think this 
behaviour is not the way it should be (dialog window should get focus), 
and I hope to get some feedback here so I can maybe file a bug (against 
metacity?)

Thanks

Eric