Bug#348745: kwin puts menu windows *behind* their owning window
Package: kwin
Version: 4:3.5.0-4
Severity: normal
kwin (at least in default debian config) puts windows with
WM_TRANSIENT_FOR property behind that window, making them completely
unusable.
For example, when ctrl-button3 clicking into a rxvt-unicode window the
window loses focus and nothing seems to happen. When one clicks near the
border you can see that the menu opens _behind_ the terminal window, with
focus correctly set to it.
While this is a correct implementation of the EWMH and ICCCM, which says:
The WM_TRANSIENT_FOR property contains the ID of another top-level
window. The implication is that this window is a pop-up on
behalf of the named window, and window managers may decide not
to decorate transient windows or may treat them differently in
other ways. In particular, window managers should present newly
mapped WM_TRANSIENT_FOR windows without requiring any user
interaction, even if mapping top-level windows normally does require
interaction. Dialogue boxes, for example, are an example of windows
that should have WM_TRANSIENT_FOR set.
it is extremely poor behaviour, and makes using menus with apps that only
set WM_TRANSIENT_FOR impossible.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15.1
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages kwin depends on:
ii kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.0-3 core libraries for all KDE applica
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libaudio2 1.7-3 The Network Audio System (NAS). (s
hi libc6 2.3.5-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-1.1 generic font configuration library
hi libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.4 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-5 GCC support library
ii libice6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libidn11 0.5.18-1 GNU libidn library, implementation
ii libjpeg62 6b-11 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.5-3 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libsm6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System Session Management
ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxcomposite1 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X off-screen compositing library
ii libxcursor1 1.1.3-1 X cursor management library
ii libxdamage1 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X region 'damage' library
ii libxext6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxfixes3 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System miscellaneous 'fix
ii libxft2 2.1.7-1 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxi6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System Input extension li
ii libxinerama1 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System multi-head display
ii libxrandr2 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System Resize, Rotate and
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-9 compression library - runtime
kwin recommends no packages.
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