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Bug 389706

Summary:	Gnome 3: Detached windows should behave like proper windows
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Tadej Janež <tadej.janez>
Component:	SWT	Assignee:	Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	arunkumar.thondapu, dgolovin, eatlinux, ericwill, gheorghe, Silenio_Quarti
Version:	4.2	Keywords:	triaged
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Description Tadej Janež

2012-09-17 05:52:45 EDT

I'm using Fedora 17 with Gnome 3.4 and Eclipse 4.2.

The new "Detached editor" functionality featured in the "New & Noteworthy" pages for Eclipse 4.2 behaves poorly under Gnome 3.

Detaching an editor indeed creates a new window, but it is not detected by Gnome shell and consequently it can not be managed like other "proper" windows.

This brings a lot of issues, for example:
1. Alt+tab does not show the detached window.
2. Draging the detached window to the side of the screen to tile two windows side-by-side does not work.

Comment 1 kyle prospert

2014-07-20 13:01:44 EDT

Cinnamon desktop has this issue too.

Comment 2 Denis Golovin

2014-09-22 14:22:53 EDT

The same thing is happening for splash screen. In worst case scenario if start is taking long time I have to minimize all windows to find starting eclipse.

Comment 3 Alexander Kurtakov

2016-07-15 17:20:20 EDT

Is this still an issue nowadays? I haven't seen this behaviour for some years.

Comment 4 Eric Williams

2018-06-15 15:33:37 EDT

(In reply to Alexander Kurtakov from comment #3)
> Is this still an issue nowadays? I haven't seen this behaviour for some
> years.

No response in two years, closing the ticket now. Please reopen if the issue occurs on GTK3.22 with 4.8.