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

[Ilja Sekler]

On 03.05.2012 00:17, Ron Johnson wrote:

> On 05/02/2012 04:31 PM, Ilja Sekler wrote:
> 
>> On 02.05.2012 22:54, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> 
>>> On 05/02/2012 03:26 PM, Ilja Sekler wrote:
>>> 
>>>> [...] 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? [...]
>>>> 
>>>> MPlayer r34879
>>> 
>>> In Ubuntu 12.04, can't replicate using r34540 and gnome-terminal 
>>> 3.4.1.
>> 
>> Strange, on Ubuntu, I can reproduce this both with r34540 from
>> Ubuntu repositories and with the current svn trunk.
>> 
>> gnome-shell 3.4.1-0ubuntu2
> 
> I use GNOME Classic (gnome-session-fallback).  Is that a variant of 
> GNOME Shell?

No, gnome-session-fallback is metacity + gnome-panel. Thank you very
much for the hint: the issue is indeed tied to gnome-shell + mutter,
instantly proved by 'metacity --replace'.

The remaining question is: are GTK applications like gnome-calculator
doing something special that gnome-shell gives focus back to
gnome-terminal after these applications are terminated? ProjectX (a java
application) exhibits the same issue like MPlayer when launched from
terminal, so this could be a common issue for all non-GTK applications.

Thanks,

-- 
Regards

Ilja