[hardy] amsn does not "blink" / "flash" on new messages with metacity on hardy

[John Kozyrakis]

Binary package hint: metacity

Normally, using aMSN or anyother IM client, when a message arrives there is some sort of notification.

Using metacity in hardy, this notification started to not work at all. There is no "flashing" or "blinking" of the task bar at all, its like no notification exists.

This issue did not exist in metacity - gutsy version, only on hardy.

I have done more testing, and if using compiz as a window manager, flashing is back on the task bar.

Steps to reproduce:

1) On latest gnome - hardy and using metacity, install amsn from the repositories\
2) Log in an have a friend talk to you and count from 1 to 20.
3) Minimize the contact window while your contact is talking
4) ---> The task bar 'entry' of the minimised contact window does NOT blink.

5) run compiz --replace to enable compiz window manager
6) ---> Blinking / flashing works.
7) run metacity --replace now
8) ---> Blinking stops again.

In kde3 and kde4, blinking works like usual, the issue is specific to metacity in gnome.

Has something changed with regards to the notification?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for sent it upstream.

[John Kozyrakis (ikoz)]

This has be fixed upstream.

[D'Lazesz (dlazesz)]

The assigned bug (gnome-bugs #528927) has been fixed in 2.23.x , but the problem still exists in Intrepid.

[myxiplx (myxiplx)]

Cool, thanks for the update. I'll wait for jackrabbit, or jackal, or whatever it's going to be and hope it's in there :)

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

the new version of the package containing the fix has been uploaded to jaunty, marking this as fixed, thanks in advance.

[D'Lazesz (dlazesz)]

It works with Jaunty alpha updated till now. (gnome 2.25.x) But will it be fixed in Intrepid / Hardy? (The original bug is about Hardy.)

[Blake W (blake-weyman)]

It annoys me that this isn't in intrepid/hardy... is it in the backports?