eog doesn't take focus when started from nautilus

[nesthib]

Similar to bug 358547 and bug 803983 but happens with only one screen and starting with the first image.

When opening an image from nautilus either using the mouse (i.e. double-click) or using the keyboard (i.e. pressing enter), eog starts, appears in the foreground but doesn't have focus. Then actions performed are done on nautilus window.

How to reproduce:

 - open nautilus
 - move to a directory containing images
 - select an image and either double-click or press enter (oeg is then started)
 - execute a keyboard command (e.g. ctrl+w to close the window)

The action is performed on the nautilus window even if eog appears in the foreground (i.e. ctrl+w will close nautilus whereas the user expects the action to be performed on eog window).

NB. I am using Ubuntu 12.04 but the bug was present in older releases. I am using a gnome-classic session.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, is that specific to eog only or does it happen with i.e pdf and evince?

[nesthib (nesthib)]

It seems to be specific to oeg. It does NOT happen with evince.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

ok, weird, I'm unsure what eog has to do with that, the focus handling is a wm thing and the action is triggered by nautilus... it would be good to report upstream in any case, it's not likely anyone in the Ubuntu maintainer will have time to look at that

[nesthib (nesthib)]

I found a corresponding bug report upstream : https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=637915

It seems the problem only happens with compiz and not with metacity.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.