zenity windows and dialogs "hidden"

January 3rd, 2009
I just discovered that zenity dialogs show up underneath all the other open windows. It was a matter of five seconds to google it and find out that this is a bug of zenity that causes this symptom if zenity is used in combination with Compiz or Metacity.

You can easily fix this problem by applying a small patch. Just run these two commands:

# wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18653141/zenity-2.24.0-focus.patch
# sudo patch -p0 /usr/share/zenity/zenity.glade < zenity-2.24.0-focus.patch


The original information was found in launchpad.

One Response to “zenity windows and dialogs "hidden"”

  1. barry Says:
    thanks very useful.

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