Sergio Schvezov wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Russ Blaine <russell.blaine at sun.com> > wrote: >> I have noticed a change in recent builds with the way the window manager >> treats >> raised windows. I usually keep thunderbird on workspace 1 and firefox on >> another. Before, if I clicked on a URL in thunderbird, it would flash an >> icon in >> the window list for the raised firefox window, and clicking that icon would >> take >> the viewport over to the workspace with firefox in it. >> >> As of build 94 (or 93 possibly), this has changed. Clicking the link (which >> causes firefox to raise itself, or set the URGENT flag, or whatever it is >> that >> it does) moves the firefox window to the current viewport. > > I get the same results with firefox. > >> Is this by design? Is there a way to get the old behavior back? > > I'm guessing it's the firefox 2 -> firefox 3 update that does this. I > also noticed this on the betas without actually upgrading > gnome/metacity.
http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/2008/07/22/dona-nobis-pacem/ has some details on window behaviour in metacity, and claims moving to the workspace is the way it works now, so it probably is a change in firefox. -- James Andrewartha
