[MPlayer-users] gnome-terminal window doesn't get focus back when mplayer video window closes

[Ron Johnson]

On 05/02/2012 03:26 PM, Ilja Sekler wrote:
> Hello,
>
> before I file a bug for gnome-terminal, mutter or whatsoever I'd like to
> get some guidance on the issue: when MPlayer video playback is launched
> from gnome-terminal, hitting 'Q' while the video window is focused or
> just closing the video window doesn't return focus back to gnome-terminal.
>
> This is specific to GNOME 3.4 across different distributions and didn't
> happen with GNOME 3.2, so this is likely a GNOME bug, but is there
> anything MPlayer could do about it? Is it the business of gnome-terminal
> or of mutter to grab focus back after a window opened by a child process
> closes? I mean, when e.g. gnome-calculator is launched from
> gnome-terminal, hitting Ctrl+Q terminates the calculator and the
> gnome-terminal window is automagically focused again, which stopped to
> work with MPlayer.
>
> MPlayer r34879
>

In Ubuntu 12.04, can't replicate using r34540 and gnome-terminal 3.4.1.

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