Does not Focus where necessary

[r3ck]

This is hard to classify but here it goes...

If you attempt to shut down or log out of the computer when you have a document opened that you have not saved you get a pop up over the file that you have not saved saying that you will lose the changes you have made to the document in the last 6 seconds, if you close now. Then it gives you the options of canceling the log out, continuing and losing your data, or save it... If you open a window and go to another workspace and try to shut down, nothing will happen, what it should do is bring you to the workspace where the error message has popped up... Also, you will no longer be able to click on the panels, or any icons on your desktop.

Okay here are the steps.**

1. Create a new File, anywhere, in Gedit.
2. Type some stuff. Do not save it.
3. Go to another workspace.
4. Attempt to Shutdown your computer.
5. See if you experience the above.

**In order to switch to the workspace you need to be in, you have to use Ctrl-Alt-Left or Right to get over there....

I am not using any Compiz.
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04
Will be around for any questions.

[Nick Ellery (nick.ellery)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at [WWW] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage . I have classified this bug as a bug in gedit.
For future reference you might be interested to know that a lot of applications have bug reporting functionality built in to them. This can be accessed via the Report a Problem option in the Help menu for the application with which you are having an issue. You can learn more about this feature at [WWW] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

I can reproduce this on Xubuntu 8.04.1. To add to this report, if "restart" is selected, the system will restart without asking if you want to save. When you log back in, a blank page is opened in Gedit, with the file name: "Unsaved_Document". At this point, you may not even remember what the document was, but if it is unsaved and and page is blank, Gedit should close and stay closed.

[r3ck (r3ck)]

Can we get a high level of importance on this bug? I would consider this a more critical issue for the majority of the user base out there... those that are not as technical....

Also is gedit the appropriate package?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

What is the duplicate bug number? Isn't that what "Mark as duplicate" is for?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

what about trying to be constructive there and looking for the number if you want to mark it as duplicate using the option? there is already a bug about the issue, we don't have the ressources to search for exact number for the hundred of duplicates filed every week though

[r3ck (r3ck)]

What would they call it? I can't find it. Its a hard one to describe... or pin a package on.

[komputes (komputes)]

Hi Ryan,

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug. I understand that you were unable to find the working Bug # to mark this one as a duplicate. To help you, I've marked this bug report as a duplicate of Bug #33673 which was reported on 2006-03-04 and currently has 11 duplicates. Bug #33673 has also been reported upstream to GNOME.