[Lazarus] Form ordering problem on tiling window manager

[Sven Barth]

On 01.02.2013 02:36, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 01:44:17 +0100
> Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1 at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> Mattias Gaertner schrieb:
>>
>>> >From the output: The LCL gtk2 interfaces sets the right order.
>>> TOpenDialog on top of OI on top of MainIDE on Form1 on SrcNB on
>>> MsgView.
>>> So, the question is what does this WM need more than
>>> gtk_window_set_transient_for.
>>> http://developer.gimp.org/api/2.0/gtk/GtkWindow.html#gtk-window-set-transient-for
>>
>> A WM manages the windows, and a widgetset (gtk...) only can tell the WM
>> how his windows should be ordered. A WM may e.g. reorder the window
>> order on focus switch or other actions, without telling or asking the
>> widgetset.
>
> According to its source code, "awesome" knows
> the transient WM HINT.
> To make sure:
> Sven, please test if you can focus or bring to front other IDE windows
> while a modal dialog is open. Before the error happens and after.

The point is: I can focus other windows without problems (I'm using the 
"focus follows mouse cursor" feature), but I can't interact with those 
other non-modal windows and they also aren't brought to the front.

I've attached a log where I did the following:
* openen open file dialog
* focused object inspector by moving the mouse there
* closed the dialog
* moved the mouse (and thus the focus) onto the following windows (in 
that order)
   - object inspector
   - form
   - source editor
   - message window
* opened the dialog again
=> the dialog now appeared behind all other windows

Regards,
Sven
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