Package: xfwm4 Version: 4.6.0-2 Severity: normal Hi! I just noticed soething about the new window placement behaviour of xfwm4 that I didn't like. I had the xfce audio mixer window up, and was going to adjust the volume by dragging one of the volume faders. Adjusting the fader is a quick action, so to save time I started Firefox immediately before, hoping to adjust the fader while Firefox was starting up, i.e. before its window would appear. I was a bit slow, so Firefox appeared while I was dragging the fader (i.e. with the mouse button depressed on the fader, and the mouse moving).
I think that normally, the Firefox window should not have been allowed to cover the audio mixer window in that situation. Looking through the xfwm4 settings, I couldn't find a setting to adjust this. In short, a new window should not cover an existing window if the user is executing an action in the existing window at that particular time (e.g. keyboard button depressed in some text field, mouse button depressed on some button/or a fader as in this case). In that case it should instead appear underneath, or wait until the action is finished (mouse button released, keyboard button released..). Not sure if this is a bug report or wishlist, I guess it depends on what the xfwm4 author originally intended. Best regards Torquil Sørensen -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (700, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages xfwm4 depends on: ii libc6 2.9-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.80-3 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.4-1 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.20.1-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.16.1-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libpango1.0-0 1.24.0-3+b1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libstartup-notification0 0.10-1 library for program launch feedbac ii libwnck22 2.24.2-2 Window Navigator Construction Kit ii libx11-6 2:1.2.1-1 X11 client-side library ii libxcomposite1 1:0.4.0-3 X11 Composite extension library ii libxdamage1 1:1.1.1-4 X11 damaged region extension libra ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxfce4util4 4.6.0-2 Utility functions library for Xfce ii libxfcegui4-4 4.6.0-2 Basic GUI C functions for Xfce4 ii libxfconf-0-2 4.6.0-3 Client library for Xfce4 configure ii libxfixes3 1:4.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio ii libxrandr2 2:1.3.0-2 X11 RandR extension library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-2 X Rendering Extension client libra Versions of packages xfwm4 recommends: ii librsvg2-common 2.22.3-2 SAX-based renderer library for SVG pn xfwm4-themes <none> (no description available) Versions of packages xfwm4 suggests: ii xfce4 4.6.0.1 Meta-package for the Xfce Lightwei -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
