122561 - iconified Mozilla does not react to keyboard commands

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[Ingo Wilken]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221
BuildID:    2001122108

Netscape 4.7x still reacts to keyboard commands when iconfied, so moving the
mouse pointer over the icon (or icon manager entry) and then hitting Alt-N can
be used to open a new browser window (or Alt-W to close this window, etc).  With
Mozilla, I have to de-iconify the window first, the Ctrl-commands have no effect
on an iconified Mozilla.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Iconify a Mozilla browser window.
2.Move mouse pointer to window's icon (or it's entry in the icon manager).
3.Hit Ctrl-N

Actual Results:  Nothing happens.

Expected Results:  Open a new browser window.


I'm using twm with it's built-in icon manager.  I usually have icons disabled by
using "IconifyByUnmapping" in twm's configuration (so the iconified windows only
show up in the icon manager), but re-enabling icons has no effect on this behaviour.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Confirming that the Netscape4 icon will respond to key commands while the
mozilla one will not.  blizzard, any ideas who should get this?

Comment 2

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

Uhh.  OK.  I never even considered this as a feature.  Don't expect me to get to
it anytime soon.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 124944 ***

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

oops.  that goes the other way.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 124944 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[timeless]

uid is being phased out.

Comment 7

[Aaron Leventhal]

Is this a typical behavior in Linux window managers?

Comment 8

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

It's not a window manager issue.  The icon is a window, and it gets events like
any other window.  A sampling of programs that I have that have keyboard
shortcuts shows that all of them but Mozilla (NS4, GIMP, Gnumeric, lyx, gv,
representing Motif, GTK, GTK, XForms, "not sure" respectively as the GUI
toolkits) respond to _some_ keyboard shortcuts when minimized (eg all of them
respond to the "Open new document/image/page keyboard shortcut) but not
necessarily to _all_ keyboard shortcuts (eg gv does not respond to the "Quit"
shortcut).

Comment 9

[u60234]

Dupe of bug 89396?

Comment 10

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 89396 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Akkana Peck]

Removing myself as assignee for editor bugs, since the editor project is (sadly) long gone.