Transmission main window does not get focus when toggling via AppIndicator applet

[Markus Korn]

Binary package hint: transmission

When I toggle visibility of the transmission main window by using the "show transmission" entry in the app indicator menu, the transmission window does not get focus. This means all keystrokes get send to the previously active window. And even worse, the global menu gets not updated with transmissions entries and window title

Ways to reproduce this:
1.) run transmision-gtk, make sure the indicator applet is activated in preferences
2.) hide/close the main window by unchecking "show window" in the indicator menu
3.) open another application, like gedit or geany
4.) activate transmission main window again by using the "show transmission" item of the menu again
5.) type something, like <TAB>

Expected result
 - <TAB> should change the focus of the widgets in transmission, instead it is send to the hidden editor
 - the global menu should show transmission's window title and menu, instead content of the editor is shown

Please see the attached video for an example.

Markus

transmission-gtk:
  Installiert: 2.13-0ubuntu7
  Kandidat: 2.13-0ubuntu7
  Versionstabelle:
 *** 2.13-0ubuntu7 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[fain182 (fain182)]

This is ultra-annoying, i made this a lot of times:

- click con show transmission
- nothing interesting, ok i can close it
- click on X to close the window but the X close the window behind...

[Timothy Arceri (t-fridey)]

Is this still an issue in Gnome 3 (Ubuntu 11.10)?

[John Milton (ijmilton)]

Same problem as original poster. Using Ubuntu 11.10 with Aavant Window Navigator instead of Unity and Gnome 3. When "Show Transmission" is click on the panel indicator transmission is opened in the background. Any fix yet?

[KAtanasov (katanasov)]

The problem still exists on 12.04 beta2.
As a work around, on Unity, one could go to CompizConfig Settings Manager->General Options->Focus & Raise Behaviour, and make Focus Prevention Windows box look like: "!(class=Polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1) & !(class=Transmission-gtk)"

[adam (adam-ciganek)]

Confirming this on 12.04, unity-2d. In my case, not only does not transmission get focus, but it shows under whatever other windows are currently open. Only the transmission's launcher icon starts to wiggle, asking for attention.

[LiohMoeller (liohmoeller)]

This still happens in Quantal.

[jotomicron (jotomicron)]

I also get the behaviour described in #6, but I'm on unity-3d on Quantal.
However, the workarround suggested in #5 works.

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)]

Read the possible workaround that Transmission should apply to fix this on description of bug #627195