New windows open in background

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 19:34 -0400, Matt Morgan wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Matt Morgan <minxmertzmomo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         
>         
>         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
>          
> 
> Sorry, accidentally clicked send. Any way, I see
> 
> Window Selection
>      select windows when the mouse moves over them
          raise selected windows after an interval <-- what if the
interval was zero. Will that not so what you want.
> 
> 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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