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gedit does not get focus when opening more than one document

Bug #48097 reported by David Planella
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Bug Description

I already saw this behaviour during the dapper development phase, but it somehow got fixed with some updates. Now, some days before the dapper release, I've noticed it again.

Basically, after having open a document, opening a new one will cause gedit to remain in the background, whereas it would be expected that gedit gets the focus and is brought to the foreground.

Steps to reproduce:

1.- Open a Nautilus window.

2.- In this window, browse a folder that contains text documents.

3.- Click on a text document. The document will be opened in gedit, which will appear on the foreground.

4.- Go back to the Nautilus window and click on a second document. The document will be open in gedit, but this time in will remain in the background, while the window list bar is flashing.

Expected: gedit opens the second document and gets focus (i.e. it appears in the foreground).

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Steven Harms (sharms) wrote :

Using the most current version of Dapper this behavior does not exist. If it happens again reopen this bug, but I tested it for a good 20 minutes with different file types, directorys, and combinations of left clicking and right clicking.

Changed in gedit:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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David Planella (dpm) wrote :

Steven,

You are right, the bug does not seem to occur anymore. I don't know which updates fixed the issue, but it must have been quite recent, since I clearly remember seeing the behaviour described on my original post at least one or two weeks ago.

Since I don't know what fixed it and, as I said, something like that also happened during Dapper development (i.e. focus issues started appearing, were fixed at some point and appeared again later), I'll keep an eye on this. But hopefully this bug won't have to be reopen.

Thanks for noticing this.

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David Planella (dpm) wrote :

Bug reopened. Some recent updates seemed to bring back this issue:

Changed in gedit:
status: Rejected → Unconfirmed
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David Planella (dpm) wrote :

I forgot to add that I'm talking of the dapper package.

This bug is very easy to test, could someone please confirm this?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for your bug. I've forwarded it upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348339

Changed in gedit:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Medium → Low
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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status: Unknown → Unconfirmed
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magilus (magilus) wrote :

Seems to be fixed in Edgy for me..

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

That's still happening on feisty, maybe you use a different window manager like compiz?

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David Planella (dpm) wrote :

And also still happening on Edgy (w/ Metacity), too.

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magilus (magilus) wrote :

I can reproduce it with Metacity in Feisty now.

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magilus (magilus) wrote :

It is possible that bug 33840 is caused by the metacity issue, too.

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magilus (magilus) wrote :

At the second look, it does not seem so. Although this bug does not appear in openSuSE, bug 33840 does.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

does openSuSe use compiz?

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magilus (magilus) wrote :

No, not by default AFAIK..

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Eric Lake (ericlake) wrote :

I just tried to reproduce the bug on an install of feisty and did not see it. When I open the second file gedit received focus. I am not running compiz on this install.

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in gedit:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Joncheyne (joncheyne) wrote :

I am seeing this on Gutsy. Gedit 2.20.3

It happens specifically when launching files from Nautilus. Gnome-Launch-Panel or alt-f2 both make Gedit the foregound ok.

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Steven Harms (sharms) wrote :

Running Gutsy with gedit 2.20.1-0ubuntu3
  -- Cannot reproduce from desktop nor nautilus file browser.

Is this still an issue?

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Joncheyne (joncheyne) wrote : Re: [Bug 48097] Re: gedit does not get focus when opening more than one document

just tried, it seems fine.

Jon

On 01/04/2008, Steven Harms <email address hidden> wrote:
> Running Gutsy with gedit 2.20.1-0ubuntu3
> -- Cannot reproduce from desktop nor nautilus file browser.
>
> Is this still an issue?
>
>
> --
> gedit does not get focus when opening more than one document
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/48097
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Will Morris (snow-open-ski) wrote :

This bug doesn't seem to be an issue. If no one has any issues with it I will close it. If you do please let me know and I will reopen it.

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Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Closing the bug as no one seems to suffer from this bug anymore. Thanks for reporting.

Changed in gedit (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Invalid
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status: New → Expired
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status: Expired → Confirmed
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