Bug#746478: metacity: focus follows mouse, no autoraise: fullscreen windows are autoraised when mouse enters

[Marjan Erzen]

Package: metacity
Version: 1:2.34.3-4
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

When enabling "focus follows mouse", and disabling "autoraise on focus", fullscreen windows are automatically raised when the mouse enters them. I searched for this problem in the web and found
  https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62208
which exactly describes the problem, just in context of KDE and presumably fixed in 2004. Maybe there is some general underlying problem in X?

I am using an EeePC, and on this hardware (resolution 1024x600), full-screen mode is very useful, but autoraise makes fullscreenmode barely usable. That is the rationale for my classification "important". The problem may be related to #398053 or #461967 as well.

I am not sure which package exactly causes this behavior.  I would think it should be the window manager. But I used Wheezy with Gnome Classic (=> metacity), Gnome/Openbox (=> openbox) and LXDE (openbox), and the problem was present in all of these setups.

Best regards,
  Marjan Eržen

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.4
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages metacity depends on:
ii  gnome-icon-theme           3.4.0-2
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas  3.4.2-3
ii  libatk1.0-0                2.4.0-2
ii  libc6                      2.13-38+deb7u1
ii  libcairo2                  1.12.2-3
ii  libcanberra-gtk0           0.28-6
ii  libcanberra0               0.28-6
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0         2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.24.10-2
ii  libgtop2-7                 2.28.4-3
ii  libice6                    2:1.0.8-2
ii  libmetacity-private0a      1:2.34.3-4
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.30.0-1
ii  libsm6                     2:1.2.1-2
ii  libstartup-notification0   0.12-1
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.5.0-1+deb7u1
ii  libxcomposite1             1:0.4.3-2
ii  libxcursor1                1:1.1.13-1+deb7u1
ii  libxdamage1                1:1.1.3-2
ii  libxext6                   2:1.3.1-2+deb7u1
ii  libxfixes3                 1:5.0-4+deb7u1
ii  libxinerama1               2:1.1.2-1+deb7u1
ii  libxrandr2                 2:1.3.2-2+deb7u1
ii  libxrender1                1:0.9.7-1+deb7u1
ii  metacity-common            1:2.34.3-4
ii  zenity                     3.4.0-2

Versions of packages metacity recommends:
ii  gnome-session [x-session-manager]           3.4.2.1-4
ii  gnome-session-fallback [x-session-manager]  3.4.2.1-4
ii  gnome-themes-standard                       3.4.2-2.1
ii  lxsession [x-session-manager]               0.4.6.1-4
ii  openbox [x-session-manager]                 3.5.0-7

Versions of packages metacity suggests:
ii  gnome-control-center  1:3.4.3.1-2
ii  xdg-user-dirs         0.14-1

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