My C5, default Gnome desktop has recently changed behaviour, and I can't figure out how to restore the previous behaviour.
Previously, clicking anywhere into a window raised it. Now, for the past few days, only clicking title bar or borders raises them.
I logged off, completely wiped all destop settings, i.e. a whole bunch of .gnome* .gconf* .metacity etc. directories, even restarted X, and logged on again. No change. /apps/metacity/general/raise_on_click is enabled.
The most baffling aspect is that click to raise works exactly as expected in vnc sessions.
Any clues how to pursue this? Am I imagining it because my Linux desktop at home does click to raise? :)
From: Lars Hecking lhecking@users.sourceforge.net
My C5, default Gnome desktop has recently changed behaviour, and I can't figure out how to restore the previous behaviour. Previously, clicking anywhere into a window raised it. Now, for the past few days, only clicking title bar or borders raises them.
Maybe try to switch on auto-raise to see if it changes anything...
JD
John Doe writes:
From: Lars Hecking lhecking@users.sourceforge.net
My C5, default Gnome desktop has recently changed behaviour, and I can't figure out how to restore the previous behaviour. Previously, clicking anywhere into a window raised it. Now, for the past few days, only clicking title bar or borders raises them.
Maybe try to switch on auto-raise to see if it changes anything...
That's an awful feature but yes, it works as expected.
There seem to be differences between releases of CentOS5. The bulk of the machines here are still on 5.4. I wiped a particular user home dir and logged into a 5.4 machine, which works as it should. Logging the same user into CentOS 5.10 (on a different machine, of course, but same hw), results in the observed behaviour.
From: Lars Hecking lhecking@users.sourceforge.net
John Doe writes:
Maybe try to switch on auto-raise to see if it changes anything...
That's an awful feature but yes, it works as expected.
There seem to be differences between releases of CentOS5. The bulk of the machines here are still on 5.4. I wiped a particular user home dir and logged into a 5.4 machine, which works as it should. Logging the same user into CentOS 5.10 (on a different machine, of course, but same hw), results in the observed behaviour.
I am on 5.10 and it works fine. Maybe if you search "raise" in gconf-editor you will find something...
JD
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Lars Hecking lhecking@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
I am on 5.10 and it works fine. Maybe if you search "raise" in gconf-editor you will find something...
I've played with the settings there, no luck.
Got so annoyed that I rebuilt the machine today. It's working again, even afer restoring all the .g* gnome rc files.
I've run into that in freenx/NX sessions once in a while (but not consistently) after a session was started from a windows NX client, moved to a Mac, then back to windows. I can't remember if it ever went back to 'click anywhere' by itself or if I always had to terminate the session and start a new one.
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