On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 08:46:47AM +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > Hi all, > > Using libreoffice 3.3.0.4 on Arch Linux 64-bit, awesome 3.4.9 > > If you have a dual-screen, open libreoffice on the 2nd screen, on a > different tag from whatever is on your first screen (try tag 1 on screen > 1, tag 2 on screen 2) > > Scroll or click on the menu bar in openoffice. The first screen will > jump to tag 2 (or whatever tag libreoffice is on on the 2nd screen) > > This does not happen when libreoffice is on the 1st screen. > > Is this (presumedly) a libreoffice bug? What sort of behaviour in an app > could cause awesome to behave in this way? > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org. >
This behaviour (and the same behaviour exhibited by Open Office) is a
long standing Open Office bug. Since Libre Office is basically Open
Office with a new name slapped on, the bug of course persists.
The main problem is that, for some reason, the OOo developers thought it
would be a nice feature to have OOo switch the desktop if a message box
appears or $RANDOM_EVENT happens. There is no real justification for
that, because OOo behaves as if it were a pager. The problem is, if we
were to remove Awesome reacting on those request, we'd cripple ICCCM
(IIRC) compliance on our side for a broken application. Filtering
"wrong" events from Open Office is also not possible because after the
events have reached the X server (i.e. half way down to Awesome) we
can't determine where they came from, thus either disabling all pagers
(widgets that display
screens/workspaces/desktop/$YOUR_FAVORITE_METAPHOR and allow changing
between them in fancy ways) or nothing. I don't have the bug report
number at hand, but it's been at least 6 months (my memory isn't that
good, maybe even a year or more) since it was reported and the
developer's answer basically was "won't fix".
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