Re: [viewglob-general] Bug report: Blinking in Gnome 2.10 window list

[Stephen B. <9s...@ql...>]

Hello again Artis,

On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 06:49:07PM +0200, Artis Rozent=C4=81ls wrote:
> When the terminal that is being tracked by viewglob is selected the
> button of viewglob in the window list applet starts to blink.

When a terminal being supervised by vgd is activated, it sends a message
to the display to raise itself to the front of the desktop so it isn't
obscured.  The display then calls the XLib functions XRaiseWindow() or
XMapRaised(), which should do exactly that.  On recent versions of
Metacity (the default Gnome window manager) these calls seem to be ignore=
d
:-(.  However, they do alert the window manager that the program is
attempting to change its state, which I'm supposing is what causes the
panel to blink.

When I have some time I'll look into finding a more compatible way to
raise the display -- but I'm not too optimistic.  FWIW, it does work
correctly in many other window managers.  As for the blinking, there may
not be a good solution to this -- it seems to be a natural function of th=
e
window list applet.

Thanks,

Stephen