Bug#340725: metacity: fails to raise windows (from gaim & emacs)

[Nick Craig-Wood]

Package: metacity
Version: 1:2.12.1-1
Severity: important

Metacity a while ago stopped raising my gaim windows.  If gaim hasn't
got the focus, then the gaim windows don't get raised to the top of my
window pile and I don't notice them (I have lots of windows on my
desktop)!

This problem can also be demonstrated in emacs also

  Run emacs
  Load a file (^XF file1)
  Load another file in a new window (^X5F file2)
  Bring the first emacs window to the top by clicking in it
  Now load the second file in a new window again (^X5F file2)

What should happen, and used to happen is that the second emacs
window comes to the top.

Now nothing appears to happen.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-s1
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages metacity depends on:
ii  gconf2                    2.10.1-6       GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.10.3-1       The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                     2.3.5-6        GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4               2.10.1-6       GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.8.3-1        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.6.10-1       The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                   6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libmetacity0              1:2.12.1-1     Common library of lightweight GTK2
ii  liborbit2                 1:2.12.4-1     libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.8.2-3        Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                  1.7-5          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                    6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System Session Management
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.8-1          library for program launch feedbac
ii  libx11-6                  6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxcursor1               1.1.3-1        X cursor management library
ii  libxext6                  6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxinerama1              6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System multi-head display
ii  libxrandr2                6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System Resize, Rotate and
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.0-2      X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  sgml-base                 1.26           SGML infrastructure and SGML catal
ii  xlibs                     6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System client libraries m

metacity recommends no packages.

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