Hardy flashing gnome panel

[trv]

Yesterday, Matthew Martin, on the bugzilla page about this metacity bug, added the following patch for metacity:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=528927

Code:

Index: src/core/window.c
===================================================================
--- src/core/window.c (revision 3967)
+++ src/core/window.c (working copy)
@@ -8062,6 +8062,10 @@
       /* windows on other workspaces are necessarily obscured */
       obscured = TRUE;
     }
+  else if (window->minimized)
+    {
+      obscured = TRUE;
+    }
   else
     {
       meta_window_get_outer_rect (window, &candidate_rect);
@@ -8087,11 +8091,14 @@
             }
         }
       /* If the window's in full view, there's no point setting the flag. */
-  
-      meta_topic (META_DEBUG_WINDOW_OPS,
-          "Not marking %s as needing attention because it's in full view\n",
-          window->desc);
-      return;
+
+      if (obscured == FALSE)
+        {  
+          meta_topic (META_DEBUG_WINDOW_OPS,
+              "Not marking %s as needing attention because it's in full view\n",
+              window->desc);
+          return;
+        }
     }
     
   /* Otherwise, go ahead and set the flag. */

I have tested the patch, and it works!

Finally, flashing works on gnome panel with metacity running for window manager.

[sbubba]

I've the same problem, but I don't understand.. where do I put the code?

[kakaroto]

sbubba: you would need to download metacity's source code, patch it with the above patch and recompile and install metacity. If you don't know how to do it, either use google or forget about it, it's not a "simple task"...

[sbubba]

ahà ok, I've understood