[compiz] Fullscreen windows(videos) and Compiz

Fredrik Carlsson mjukis at gmail.com
Wed Apr 11 07:54:58 PDT 2007


This patch indeed breaks something, i'm using kde and after starting a
movie in, say mplayer, windows can't be raised by clicking in them.

2007/4/11, Cedric <gnumdk at gmail.com>:
> 2007/4/10, Danny Baumann <dannybaumann at web.de>:
> >
> > Ok, given the fact that we posted two pretty similar patches independent
> > from each other and that the window raising on fullscreen and
> > maximization changes is considered desired behaviour by a number of
> > users, I just went ahead and pushed out your patch, extended by window
> > raising on a maximization change.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Danny
>
>
>
> Just to give my point of view, i'm not sure it's good to raise a window on
> maximisation/fullscreen. It's the default in metacity but not in Kwin...
> Kwin never raise windows on maximize/fullscreen events.
>
> I think this patch break "sloppy focus"/"don't raise on click" behaviour =>
> You wants to play with below windows without changing stacking.
>
> Cedric
>


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