Starting gimp casues metacity warnings

Bug #91085 reported by Sitsofe Wheeler
6
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gimp (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gimp

Description of the problem:
Starting gimp causes metacity to print warning in ~/.xsession-errors .

Steps to reproduce:
1. Start gimp .

Expected results:
gimp to start and no output to be added to ~/.xsession-errors .

Actual results:
gimp starts but the following is added to ~/.xsession-errors:
Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x34025d7 (The GIMP)
Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.

How reproducible is this problem:
It is reproducible every time.

Version information:
Ubuntu Feisty
gimp 2.2.13-1ubuntu4
metacity 2.17.8-0ubuntu1

Revision history for this message
Andy Price (andy-price) wrote :

I can confirm this behaviour on an up to date feisty. Additionally, it only happens when you launch gimp from a terminal or the "run application" tool. Presumably this is because using the Gimp menu item launches "gimp-remote-2.2 %U" and not just "gimp":

Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x2c025d7 (The GIMP)
Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.

Changed in gimp:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Changed in gimp:
importance: Undecided → Low
Revision history for this message
Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe) wrote :

Still here with Ubuntu Gutsy

Version information:
Ubuntu Gutsy (development branch)
gimp 2.3.18-1ubuntu2
metacity 1:2.19.55-0ubuntu1

Revision history for this message
sam tygier (samtygier) wrote :

seems fixed in 2.4.4 in hardy

Changed in gimp:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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