Title could have been: "Dialog window not brought to front with Compiz Fusion"

I would make a bug report for this, but don't know where to put it.

Anyway, I use Ktorrent i Gnome with Compiz Fusion.

If I open a torrent in Ktorrent from Firefox, the dialog window asking where I want to put the files is not brought to the front of the screen.

I suspect this is due to the following:
I run
$ xprop|grep WINDOW_TYPE|cut -d_ -f10
it returns "DIALOG,"

I think this should be without the comma, and that this is what's screwing with Compiz' window handling.
My fix for right now is having:
"title=Select Which Files You Want to Download"
in Compiz Fusion's "Window Rules plugin". This keeps the dialog on the front untill I close it, so still a little annoying.

Could someone with super-ktorrent-powers look into this and confirm?

This is what you get when you don't cut anything :

_NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE(ATOM) = _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DIALOG, _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_NORMAL

So this comma is just part of the output generated by xprop.

I suggest you talk to the compiz people, KT has no problem to bring the dialog to the front in a normal setup.

That may be the case, but Ktorrent's dialog differs from the other dialogs I've seen. Just check out this screenshot of getting the window type of Ktorrent:





and a Firefox dialog here:





I don't understand how this is not an issue, if Ktorrent is different in this respect than other apps.

I get the exact same properties when I open the konqueror's settings dialog.

Anyway, are you even sure these properties are used by the window manager ?

George wrote:I get the exact same properties when I open the konqueror's settings dialog.

Anyway, are you even sure these properties are used by the window manager ?

You're quite right. And Amarok's settings have this as well.

I was annoyed by the fact that the ktorrent dialog is not brought to front, and it's the only window I've come across that this happens to. I was just checking one possibility.

I'll check with the Compiz Fusion forums instead.

- Ketil