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

[Ilja Sekler]

On 04.05.2012 18:11, Dominique Michel wrote:

> Le Wed, 02 May 2012 22:26:07 +0200,
> 
> Ilja Sekler a écrit :
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Focusing the windows is the business of the wm, gnome in your case.
> [...]

Thank you, mutter bug

<https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675468>

filed, offending commit probably identified.

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Regards

Ilja