[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bug#514115: Bug#514115: tk: Tk and Tkinter applications broken in Metacity window manager

[Miguel Filgueiras]

Sergei Golovan <sgolovan at nes.ru> wrote:
> severity 514115 normal
> thanks
[...]

> But adding [wm group $w .] after creating toplevel $w makes Metacity
> happy. The attached modified test script works in Metacity too.

Thanks a lot for this way of avoiding the problem.

> So, I wouldn't blaim Tk developers for this behavior.

I fully agree, but as the problem was not solved by raising the
bug in Bugzilla and the general bug in Debian I was forced to
raise the bug here...

> Though it'd
> probably better to add a few words about [raise] behavior to raise
> manpage. And certainly the severity of this bug isn't "important".

The severity surely depends on how much time a developer spends
trying to figure out strange problems of windows that users
cannot see and also to explain to them why certain buttons do
nothing at all. But you know better!

Thanks!
Miguel Filgueiras