Control: severity -1 important
Control: tags -1 unreproducible moreinfo

Hi Eduard,

On Mon, 23 Jan 2017 08:27:08 +0100 Eduard Bloch <e...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Package: serious
> Version: 1.90-1
> Severity: important
> 
> This is a regression in the recent version. Previously, it behave fine,
> just like any other x-terminal-emulator. Now crazy things happen:
> 
>  - when you have an already open Terminator
>  - and you run Terminator again
> 
> Then:
>  - the new window appears for a split-second
>  - suddenly the OLD window gets focus and is raised by the WM
>  - the new window gets explicitly into background (but only when created
>    on the same WM workspace, otherwise it gets into foreground as
>    expected but then the workspace is changed so you don't see it
>    anyway)
>  - sometimes (apparently when another Gtk application like HexChat is
>    started in the meantime and a modal dialog has been shown there once)
>    this behavior disappears for short time but after some steps it gets
>    back.
> 
> I am reporting this as serious because it affects the visible behavior
> of the whole system - ie. it steals user's view fn the current workspace
> in my WM (IceWM), workspaces jump around, user has to figure out where
> he was before again and this is harder to identify because on the old
> workspace, there is now a new window covering the contents of your
> previous application. And DRIVES ME CRAZY.

How do you open the second terminator instance? ctrl+shift+i ?

I'm afraid I can't reproduce this. Can you try my new upload (to hit mirrors in
a few hours) 1.90+bzr-1705-1 and see if it still happens? If it does, can you
try with a different window manager to make sure this isn't IceWM specific?

Thanks,
Emilio

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