gksudo launched applications open behind other windows

Thanks for your

This seems to be a gksu bug, we are investigating what exacly caused the problem.

Cheers,
 Michael

this appears to happen with all applications launched with gksudo (ie all the system -> administration programs.)

the new window appears to be drawn on top first, and then push back.

is this related to metacity focus stealing prevention
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-December/msg00306.html

this does not occur if using openbox as a windowmanager.

sudo apt-get install openbox
openbox --replace

Interesstingly this seems to be releated to the startup notification patch. If the startup notification for gksu is disabled (patch removed) it seems to be working. I would be interessted if other people can reproduce this. Please recompile the current gksu package and remove the debian/patches/11_startup_notification.patch before runing "debuild".

Thanks,
 MIchael

Michael: seems to work properly with the patch removed here.

I uploaded gksu_1.3.7-0ubuntu2 that fixes the issue. There was a problem in the event time initialization in the new startup notification code.

Cheers,
 Michael

I can reproduce this on a dapper beta candidate install (amd64), so it appears not to be fixed.

An update within the last couple days has regressed this, I'm getting it again as well. Was definitely fixed for a week at least.

> An update within the last couple days has regressed this, I'm getting it again as well.

I can confirm this, too.

I can confirm this behaviour on my system too, and IIRC it has been like that since I upgraded from Breezy to dapper last weekend.

I also confirm it.
Using fresh DAPPER BETA install with all the updates installed

any more news about this bug?

ps. On my friends computer I installed DAPPER BETA 1 and he didnt have this bug. The bug started hapening when we installed latest updates for DAPPER!!

ashrack: That would be because it was broken in early flights, then was fixed, then broke again (in late April). And has sat since...

Something changed recently that broke the startup notification patch again. I'm debugging it currently. Interesstingly only applications that support startup notification natively seems to be affected. The good old "xdvi", "xemacs" etc applications work as expected.

metacity (when run with METACITY_DEBUG=1 and METACITY_VERBOSE=1) comes up with a interessting explaination why the window is not focused:

STARTUP: window 0x1000006 (Unsaved Do) focus prevented by other activity; 2896396320 < 413216422

I'm looking at metacity next

I uploaded gksu_1.3.7-0ubuntu8_source a couple of minutes ago and it should fix the issue. Please let me know if it works for you too.

Cheers,
 Michael

It works for me now :)

Thank you Michael.

clast

It also works for me now.

Thank you very much, I couldn't wait for this one to be fixed ever since I upgraded... :)

Works for me, too.

Thanks :)

Thanks for testing! Closing the bug now.