[ubuntu-mono] [Bug 565283] Re: Gnome Do does not come completely to front in KDE: please add default "prevent focus stealing workaround"

[Harald Sitter]

No workarounds shall pass!

There are multiple proper approaches to this, in descending order of sanity:
a) http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-latest.html#id2550738
b) override window management altogether (that is what KDE's equivalent does IIRC)
c) KDE plugin thing http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdeui/html/classKWindowSystem.html#aecb213d950a6615fc0e961273d72e166

** Changed in: kdebase (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Won't Fix

** Changed in: gnome-do (Ubuntu)
       Status: Invalid => New

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Title:
  Gnome Do does not come completely to front in KDE: please add default "prevent focus stealing workaround"

Status in “gnome-do” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “kdebase” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gnome-do

When pressing Super-Space, Gnome Do gets displayed, but does not come to front completely.
It appears to be ordered below the window having currently focus.

E.g. when now having Chromium in front, about half the width of the screen, pressing Super-Space displays Gnome Do, but only half of the window is visible, the other half is hidden behind the Chromium window.
Gnome Do does have the keyboard focus though, also the mouse appears to be focused on it (in the sense of behaving different as long as Gnome Do is open).

Typing anything to launch and pressing Enter launches it. Pressing Escape hides the window again - that appears to be normal.

I do not have the KDE compositing effects enabled (using the nouveau driver).

WORKAROUND:
Add a window rule via system settings ("Window Behavior", "Window Rules), similar to the ones provided by default ("(Default) Disable focus stealing prevention for Firefox").
 - Window class: "do do"
 - Window Extra: "Splash Screen"
 - Workarounds: "Focus stealing prevention": "Force": "None"


Such a rule should get shipped by KDE by default, just like for Firefox and the others.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gnome-do 0.8.3.1+dfsg-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Apr 17 11:54:28 2010
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-do