#941123 gdm3: action-middle-click-titlebar 'lower' is ignored: can't set window to lower on title bar middle-click

Package:
gnome-shell
Source:
gnome-shell
Description:
graphical shell for the GNOME desktop
Submitter:
"Conrad J.C. Hughes (for Debian package stuff)"
Date:
2019-09-25 10:03:08 UTC
Severity:
normal
#941123#5
Date:
2019-09-25 08:41:43 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

In previous incarnations of Debian, middle-clicking on the title bar lowered
windows (moved them to the back of the stack, making other windows visible).
More recently this was relegated to a "tweak".  Now even that doesn't work.

Using either the tweaks app, a manual edit of gtk-*.0/settings.ini, or the
command line

  dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/wm/preferences/action-middle-click-titlebar
"'lower'"

.. it should be possible to configure middle clicking on a title bar to lower
the window in question.  This no longer works.  Other values, such as
"minimize", do still work.

It would be nice if "lower" functionality could be restored.

Best,
Conrad
#941123#10
Date:
2019-09-25 09:00:14 UTC
From:
To:
Urgh, too late I manage to crack Gnome's search engine.  This seems to
appear upstream in a few contexts, but I don't understand what the
consequences are for a fix in Debian:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/773
  Closed; says it's applications' fault!

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/issues/602
  .. points to
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/539
  .. where the same guy says it's applications' fault.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/1895
  .. where it looks as if the 'lower window' implementation has
  never been completed.

C.