Fedora and gnome panel

[Marc Schwartz]

On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 15:32, David Miller wrote:
> I recently upgraded from RedHat 9 to Fedora.
> 
> In RedHat 9 I had created drawers on the panel and dropped apps in the 
> drawers.  Worked well for me.
> 
> When I installed Fedora all the drawers were there and there was an icon 
> in the drawer for each app but each of these was another drawer now.
> 
> I went through and deleated all the drawers and started over. and added 
> all the drawers to the panel and  placed then placed my apps in the 
> draweres.  They seems to work great.  Later I logged out, when I logged 
> back in all the apps changed back to drawers again.
> 
> Frustrated, I thought there must be something that wasn't compatable 
> between the config files of the old and new.  I deleted all directories 
> starting with .gnome and all others that I thought was related to gnome 
> config.  When I logged in the desktop changed from the Redhat desktop 
> that I had been using to a different background and had all the default 
> icons on the panel. 
> Now I have a clean start.  I put one drawer on the panel.  Added a 
> couple of apps to the drawer.  They work fine.  Logout then login and 
> the icons are now drawers.
> 
> The other problem I have is that I have always had focus change to the 
> window the cursor is on and it would raise if I clicked in the window.  
> I am still able to change focus when the cursor is placed in a window 
> but it seams that I have to click on the title bar to raise the window.  
> Is there a way to get my old behaivor.
> 
> David Miller


Both are known problems.

The first for sure is in Bugzilla already, though I have not seen any
updates as to a fix. I have not reviewed the Bugzilla entry for a while
and I do not recall if there was an upstream issue or not. You can
search either Bugzilla or the fedora-list archives on this using "GNOME
panel drawer" as keywords.

The second problem is also known with Metacity, the default window
manager for GNOME and has been the subject of recent discussion. Search
the fedora-list archives for "Metacity". The "new" behavior is changed
from RH 9 and is intentional. You have the option of various alternate
window managers and/or desktop environments as has been discussed here
at length. My choice was to change to XFCE4, but that's me.

Near term one option for the Metacity issue is to use the combination of
pressing the ALT key and left clicking on the application window to
raise it. This was also discussed just in the past few days with reasons
as to why this makes some sense.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz