New windows open in background

[Matt Morgan]

On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Matt Morgan <minxmertzmomo at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>wrote:
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>> On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 20:48 -0400, Matt Morgan wrote:
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>> > On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
>> > <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> >         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?
>> >
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>> >         The answer may depend on what desktop are you using, which you
>> >         don't
>> >         state.
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>> >         poc
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>> > 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
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> I checked there but don't see a setting for this. I see
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> Select Windows when the mouse moves over them
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Sorry, accidentally clicked send. Any way, I see

Window Selection
     select windows when the mouse moves over them
          raise selected windows after an interval

Titlebar Action
     double-click title bar to perform this action:

Movement Key
    To move a window, press and hold this key then grab the window:

None of those has to do with whether a window comes to the foreground when
it has focus.

Here's some more info: Firefox actually works properly. When I alt-tab to
it, or click on it in the window list in the taskbar, it gets focus and
comes to the foreground as I would expect. So far nothing else (Thunderbird,
Wesnoth, Gnome file windows, for example) works right. For everything else,
they get focus (ie I can see the foreground window lose focus) but stay in
the background, either alt-tabbing or clicking on the window list.

Thanks,
Matt
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