Re: [Gretl-devel] help window in the background
On Wed, 7 Dec 2011, Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza wrote:
I am seeing that if you try in the gretl GUI some models, for
example
'ordinary least squares', 'instrumental variables', ... 'robust
estimation' in the dialog window that emerges you can click on the
'help' button and the help window appears correctly in the foreground,
but if you do the same with /model/Maximum likelihood, GMM or
simultaneous equations, the help window appears in the
background...
I now see that this happens in Ubuntu 10.04. It seems to be a bug in
metacity, the gnome window manager. On my own Linux system I'm not
using metacity -- I use sawfish -- and the Help window (correctly)
appears on top of the dialog box from which it was called.
The user-level workaround is to slide the Help out from underneath
the dialog and place it alongside; metacity won't even let you click
the Help window to the front. Maybe I can figure some other
workaround in the gretl code but it doesn't look easy...
Allin