New windows open in background

[Matt Morgan]

On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>wrote:

> On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 20:48 -0400, Matt Morgan wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
> > <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >         On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 15:00 -0400, Matt Morgan wrote:
> >         > My 18 month-old was playing with the computer for a while,
> >         and now new
> >         > windows are opening in the background.
> >         >
> >         > This is on Fedora 9. I googled this and searched the list,
> >         but can't
> >         > find any help. I'm not using the fancy new desktop stuff
> >         (compiz,
> >         > desktop-effects, whatever we call it). Any suggestions?
> >
> >
> >         The answer may depend on what desktop are you using, which you
> >         don't
> >         state.
> >
> >         poc
> >
> > Gnome. Thanks. More info: If I click on the window in the window list,
> > the window gets focus, but does not come to the foreground. Only
> > clicking on the window brings it to the foreground.
> >
> This behavior can be changed through: System->Preferences->Look and
> Feel->Windows
>

I checked there but don't see a setting for this. I see

Select Windows when the mouse moves over them
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