Xorg problem: What happened to XRaiseWindow?

[Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)]

On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 08:57:30 -0500 "Ernest L. Williams Jr." <ernesto at ornl.gov>
babbled:

> On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 13:24 +0100, Erwin Rol wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 07:14 -0500, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 07:08 -0500, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > When calling XRaiseWindow under Fedora, it does come to foreground when
> > > > covered by another window, hmmm?  
> > > 
> > > I meant to say: Does "NOT" come to the foreground.
> > > 
> > 
> > Isn't the raising of windows a task of the window manager, and not of
> > the program ? 
> Yes, but the way you tell the window manager that you would like to
> raise the window is via XRaiseWindow, right?
> 
> Now, notice if one were to access the covered window via the taskbar of
> KDE for example it does come to the foreground.
> 
> So, my question is have the window managers decided to not honor the
> standard XRaiseWindow request?

no. i noticed this with xnest in the xorg tree - its raise was broken long ago
- i made the mistake of using xnest from xorg's tre efor a while and was
chasing an non-exustant bug in my wm - it was doing everything right... xnest
wasn't. reverting back to xfree's xnest made it all work again (and it worked
in the full xserver too - just not xnest), so... i would maybe surmise this
same bug has reared its ugly head again. window managers dont just suddelty
stop honoring raise requests :) not unless its a wm bug - and even then - i
found it an x bug at the time.

> 
> 
> > 
> > In FC5 it seems the window manager does not "raise" windows over windows
> > that have the focus. 
> Same happens in RedHat Enterprise Linux 4
> 
> What is going on?
> 
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> > 
> > - Erwin
> > 
> > 
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