Issue 17719 - Paragraph style window (and similar) steals windows focus. (Window manager integration?)
Summary: Paragraph style window (and similar) steals windows focus. (Window manager in...
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: General
Classification: Code
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1 RC2
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: AOO Later
Assignee: philipp.lohmann
QA Contact: issues@framework
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: 17810 (view as issue list)
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Blocks: 17810
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Reported: 2003-07-31 15:51 UTC by abo
Modified: 2010-01-28 13:04 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description abo 2003-07-31 15:51:11 UTC 
I run Red Hat Linux 9 with the default GNOME/Metacity environment. I installed
OOo 1.1rc2 in /opt.

I open up two text documents and try switching focus between them with either
the mouse or using Alt-TAB, but whenever I change focus the "Paragraph Styles"
window shows up and steals the focus. I have to click with the mouse once more
or press Alt-TAB again to get focus to the right window.

I like the fact that "Paragraph Styles" and similar windows are real window
manager windows and that they're only visible when they're useful, but maybe OOo
could hint the window manager about not always giving them the keyboard focus?
Comment 1 abo 2003-07-31 15:53:43 UTC 
fix summary
Comment 2 thorsten.martens 2003-08-04 09:54:30 UTC 
TM->PL: As talked about, please have a look.
Comment 3 philipp.lohmann 2003-08-04 10:06:46 UTC 
Such a hint has just recently entered the EWMH spec and i know of no
window manager that supports it already; as soon as i get one
(probably metacity as it tends to be updated quickly to the EWMH spec)
i will add it.
Comment 4 abo 2003-09-04 13:49:51 UTC 
Oh, I see. Maybe it would be better to just revert to the old
"internal" windows then, until X11 has a sane way of dealing with
these kinds of windows.
Comment 5 philipp.lohmann 2004-01-13 09:22:11 UTC 
*** Issue 17810 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 6 ulf.stroehler 2004-05-25 14:55:16 UTC 
According to the OOo roadmap retargeting to 'OOo Later'.
Comment 7 cno 2007-04-30 10:58:26 UTC 
With 2.2 on XP this works OK.
With 2.0.3 on Debian via NoMachine session, it is still not OK.
With 2.2 on XP the same problem occures with the object browser in the IDE.

Any other comments?
Can someone check with 2.2 on Linux?
Comment 8 cno 2007-05-05 21:53:02 UTC 
Checked with 2.2 on Debian.
Still not OK there.
Comment 9 ybz 2008-07-21 10:53:18 UTC 
Checked with OO 2.4 on Ubuntu 8.04. Still not OK.
Comment 10 philipp.lohmann 2010-01-28 13:04:00 UTC 
nowadays OOo sets the _NET_WM_USER_TIME hint, see issue 100116
Comment 11 philipp.lohmann 2010-01-28 13:04:21 UTC 
closing