96583 - Mozilla de-iconifies on new windows

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 105225

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[ltskinol]

Linux 2001082208

I use fvwm2 as my window manager.  In its config file, I have this:

# The Mozilla main window.

Style "*Build ID*" \
        StartsOnPage 0 1 1, \
        StartIconic

This is supposed to start all Mozilla windows as iconic on a specific desktop
page.

My problem is that Mozilla now sometimes immediately de-iconifies as it
loads a page.  Here's what I've seen:

1. Start Mozilla from a prompt.  The main window goes iconic and stays that
way.  (This is correct).

2. Start Mozilla, and then use File->New Navigator window.  Ditto.

3. Start Mozilla, and middle-click on a link.  The new window opens, goes
iconic, and as soon as the page starts to load, de-iconifies itself on top
of my current Mozilla window.  This is wrong.

4. Right-click on a link, and select "Open in New Window."  Same as #3.

So something is going on inside the "open in new window" code that causes
Mozilla to de-iconify.  I don't know enough about X to be able to say what 
could do this.

One other thing.  This problem used to be sporadic - sometimes Mozilla would
auto-de-iconify, sometimes not.  Within the past week or so, it's become 100%
reproducable.  I don't know it it's related to the changes checked in for the
on-going "Mozilla steals focus from other windows" problem, and I was under
the impression that that one was fixed, anyway.

Comment 1

[timeless]

reporter: What OS and Hardware platform are you using? the number of people 
using Other is approximately 0.

Comment 2

[ltskinol]

Sorry, I thought that was clear from the bug report.  Linux, Mandrake, kernel 2.4.9,
fvwm2 2.4.0 window manager.

Updating OS->Linux, though this might be a bug on any Unix.

Comment 3

[ltskinol]

More information: Windows 98, Mozilla 20010826xx.  Use right click, then 
Open in New Window.  As soon as the window frame appears, minimize 
this new window.  When the page loads, it de-minimizes. just like under 
Linux.

Real annoying.

It never did this on Windows, as far as I remember.

Comment 4

[Christian Reis]

Reporter, this sounds like a bug with the windowmanager, since i can't reproduce
it with either wmaker and assorted others (excluding fvwm2), but I'd like to
hear a bit more. Can we have an xprops dump of a click on the iconified window?
and on the expanded window?

Can you reproduce this with other windowmanagers?

Comment 5

[Christian Reis]

*** Bug 97651 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[ltskinol]

I tried to reproduce w/wmaker and black box - no go.  I'm going
to try to figure out (from the fvwm2 developers) what's causing
this, and report back.

In the meantime, I ran across this in the fvwm FAQ:

5.7  Why won't the StartIconic style work with {Netscape, etc.}?

A: The application won't allow it.  This has only been observed with
   Netscape.  When Netscape starts up, FVWM starts the main window in
   the iconic state.  Netscape immediately issues another MapRequest,
   to which the window manager must respond by de-iconifying the
   window, according to the ICCCM rules.  (Netscape can be persuaded to
   start iconic, however, by invoking it with the -iconic command line
   flag.)

Any chance Mozilla started to do MapRequests recently?

Comment 7

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

->apps

Comment 8

[Frederic Crozat]

This is a duplicate of 77675 (sorry, not enough privilege to duplicate this bug
directly)

Comment 9

[Mike Kowalski]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 77675 ***

Comment 10

[Jeremy M. Dolan]

un-duping, this is on more recent builds then 77675. There is a newer version of
that bug (which is not already fixed) somewhere, which this should be duped against.

Comment 11

[Diego Biurrun]

That's the correct one.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 97067 ***

Comment 12

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

v

Comment 13

[ltskinol]

Re-opening.  97067 is fixed, but this one isn't...

Comment 14

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

danm? saari? reassign as needed!

Comment 15

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 105225 ***