How to raise app with pager task button

["Maszle, Don" <Don Maszle RP-RORER COM>]

> I'm new to Gnome, and like it a lot.  One aspect of the X window 
> interaction which has in general confounded me, however, is the default
> behavior assigned to raising and lowering windows.  My current problem
> is with the Gnome pager task buttons.
> 
> A pager button shows 1 of 3 buttons, which because I cannot see them
> better,
> look like a blob, a blob with a yellow burst (like the fvwm start button),
> or
> an orange box with a blob on it.  I believe the burst to be the active
> window,
> the box to be a hidden window, the regular blob to be any other window.
> 
> The problem that I often have is that if I press on a blob button, the
> window
> doesn't always raise, although the window becomes active as indicated by
> the
> blob-burst.  The only way to raise the window then is to right-click and
> choose show/hide which turns the blob into a box, then click, which raises
> the window and uniconifies it (blob), then click in the window to activate
> it
> (blob-burst).
> 
> Q1.  What is the purpose of default behavior throughout X window managers
>      to activate a window without raising it?  If the window is totally 
>      obscurred by another, this is a fairly useless behavior and renders
>      the window inaccessible.
> 
> Q2.  Can anyone help me to change this behavior?  There is nothing in any
> of
>      the properties boxes addressing this issue.
> 
> Please respond via e-mail.  My paranoid firewall won't let me read
> newsgroups.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Don Maszle
> 
>