shortcut to new shell opened behind the first one ....

[Uno Engborg]

Jon Nettleton wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 22:00 +0100, Uno Engborg wrote:
>   
>> Alan Cox skrev:
>>     
>>> On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 02:52:37PM +0100, Larry tb wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> When using shortcut ctrl shift N, to open a new shell, the new shell is 
>>>> opened BEHIND the actual one.
>>>> Is it a new fonction ?
>>>> Not very useful is it ?
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Its alleged to be a feature. It tries to open applications run from a shell 
>>> behind the shell so that you keep having to bring them to the front. This
>>> includes new shells, programs you really wanted to appear in front of it,
>>> and so on. In theory it stops a new application from interfering with the
>>> command line you are typing, but it is intentional.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> There should really be some way to turn this off, e.g. in gconf
>>
>>     
> Wouldn't the ideal behavior be, if keyboard events are being captured
> then the window is being drawn to the back, else draw it in the
> foreground?  This should give us a balance of security and convenience
> without having another gconf setting to turn on or off.
>   
Yes, that sounds great! 
BTW, is this "feature" a Fedora thing or is it a Gnome 2.14
problem. If so perhaps you should notify notify the Gnome bugzilla as well.

Regards
Uno Engborg