Alt-tabbing to an app with a modal dialog open doesn't move it up in the alt-tab order.
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metacity |
Confirmed
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Medium
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| metacity (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Low
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs | ||
Bug Description
The Alt-tab order for apps reorders when you tab to a window. (Say the order is 1, 2, 3, with 1 being on top. If you alt-tab to window 3, then the order will be 3, 1, 2.) This does not happen when one of these windows has a modal dialog open.
To replicate:
1. Open gedit, and some other windows. (Nautilus windows will do, as long as there's more than one.)
2. Type some nonsense into the gedit window. Hit CTRL-Q to pop up the "Save the changes?" dialog.
3. Alt-tab to one or more of the other open windows. Then alt-tab back to gedit.
4. At this point, gedit should be at the top of the alt-tab list, but it is not. It cannot, as long as it has a modal dialog open, move up in the list, only down.
I am using metacity 1:2.14.3-0ubuntu2 on Ubuntu Dapper.
This may be related to 16755, but appears to be different in some ways: in that bug, the window could not be brought to the front at all; in this, the window is brought to the front; the issue is with the alt-tab list.
| Changed in metacity: | |
| importance: | Untriaged → Low |
| Changed in metacity: | |
| status: | Unknown → Rejected |
| Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in metacity: | |
| assignee: | nobody → desktop-bugs |
| status: | Unconfirmed → Confirmed |
| Changed in metacity: | |
| status: | Rejected → Confirmed |
| sam tygier (samtygier) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in metacity (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
| Changed in metacity: | |
| importance: | Unknown → Medium |
Thank you for the bug and the upstream pointer