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Compiz: applications steal focus on their start

Bug #107840 reported by Roman Polach
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Compiz
Fix Released
Unknown
Ubuntu
Fix Released
Undecided
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Bug Description

In feisty:
With metacity (desktop effect disabled): most application do not steal focus on their start, if user switched to another window before application window first appears.
But this is not true to compiz (desktop effects enabled).
This is probably true to all gnome apps, but examples are: gimp, gnome-terminal.

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Roman Polach (rpolach) wrote :

If the bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/91590
is not meant to be AMSN specific, this bug may should be marked as duplicate of that.

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Roman Polach (rpolach) wrote :

Does anybody noticed this bug?
This problem is still present in Gutsy Beta!
It is a big usability issue. Until it is solved,
compiz should be replaced by metacity by default.
Users can get over the loss of desktop effects, but
starting all application windows over that I work with
is very irritating.

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Roman Polach (rpolach) wrote :

the upstream bug is filled: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12609
but I don't know how to set it here

Changed in compiz:
status: New → Unknown
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Changed in compiz:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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Roman Polach (rpolach) wrote :

changed upstream bug reference to http://bugs.opencompositing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501 that seems to be used.
This bug is probably fixed upstream. Could be the fix included in ubuntu's compiz?

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Changed in compiz:
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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Roman Polach (rpolach) wrote :

seems to be fixed now in gutsy... gedit and gnome-terminal works...
it not works for gimp, but that needs fill separate bug for gimp (not compiz)

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Julien Olivier (julo) wrote :

I just tested it in Hardy, and the bug is still present. Might it be a regression ?

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Julien Olivier (julo) wrote :

Sorry, I just figured out that you need to set the "/apps/compiz/general/screen0/options/focus_prevention_level" key to "2" and the "/apps/compiz/general/screen0/options/focus_prevention_match" key to "any" in gconf for it to work as expected.

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