I am having the same problem with windows in the taskbar not raising to the top. This looks like a problem with the application Metacity - gnome windows manager. I am running metacity 2.20.0 on Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080207 Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.12 I found a simple way to reproduce the problems in IDLE the IDE for Python. IDLE can be installed from the Synaptic Package Manager, just search for IDLE the integrated development environment for python.
Launch IDLE, then click FILE then click NEW WINDOW, this creates UNTITLED within the UNTITLED window click RUN then click PYTHON SHELL PYTHON SHELL comes to the top as the active window, as it should. Here is where it gets screwy Now click on UNTITLED in the taskbar, this brings UNTITLED to the top as the active window as it should then click RUN then click PYTHON SHELL!!! now for some reason the window PYTHON SHELL does NOT come to the top as the active window instead it sits blinking in the taskbar as if the UNTITLED window was made to be Always On Top. Now, click on PYTHON SHELL in the taskbar, it Minimizes the PYTHON SHELL window??? click on PYTHON SHELL in the taskbar again and it Maximizes the PYTHON SHELL window raising it up to the top active window. Now try this, make the PYTHON SHELL window the active top window and minimize it. Now within the UNTITLED window click on RUN then click on PYTHON SHELL, now it works??? the PYTHON SHELL window raises to the top active window For some reason if the PYTHON SHELL window is minimized it works and if it is not minimized it does not work. And yet when one first launches IDLE it works. Metacity has got problems. The new 2.21 version is out but I have never compiled so i'll wait for an Ubuntu update. Also, setup Java and go play some free poker at Party Poker Anytime in more than one window. It is absolutedly insane. One has to click on a window to activate it and then click on the window that is blinking to get it to goto active top ... completely NUTZ. When an appplication calls for a window to activate, it should raise to the top, no clicking involved. -- window list should raise window https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/175401 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
