Re: _NET_WM_[GET_|TAKE_|REQUEST_]FOCUS & urgency

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 17:28 -0700, Rob Adams wrote:
> 
> You can set the property yourself with metacity and it'll work,

I believe it will work with the tasklist, but not metacity.
Look at the code:

static void
update_net_wm_state (MetaWindow *window)
{
  /* We know this is only on initial window creation,
   * clients don't change the property.
   */


And indeed the comment looks correct, this function only gets called
from meta_window_new(). process_property_notify() doesn't handle a
_NET_WM_STATE change and the newfangled window-props.c doesn't have code
for it.

So by my reading metacity won't know that DEMANDS_ATTENTION is set, and
thus the first time metacity sets a new value for _NET_WM_STATE it will
drop out an app-provided DEMANDS_ATTENTION flag accidentally regardless
of what focusing has gone on.

Havoc