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

[Uno Engborg]

John Summerfied wrote:
> Uno Engborg wrote:
>> Larry tb skrev:
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>>> 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 ?
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>> Every new window is opened behind the shell.  Try to type open 
>> sabayon, by typing the
>> command from a shell, and you will find that the sabayon window is 
>> completely covered
>> by the shell from which it was opened. In fact it made me think 
>> sabayon was broken
>> as nothing seamed to happen.
>>
>> I think that they did it this way to prevent opening windows from 
>> grabbing the user input,
>> something that could be serious if the user is typing a password. 
>> However that situation is very rare and I think this should be 
>> regarded as a bug.
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> With the old behaviour it's disturbingly common for a dialogue to pop 
> up and steal keystrokes. It's perfectly possible for a dialogue to be 
> dismissed (by the user pressing the space-bar) before it's read - that 
> has happened to me, and depending on the dialogue perhaps to result in 
> other wrong actions.
>
> KDE has been doing this for years, and once I became accustomed to it, 
> I think I've only found it inconvenient once or twice. The time I can 
> remember is running tsclient on FC3 to run a remote desktop to a 
> Windows box; when the session ends, the tsclient login dialogue pops 
> up and is disabled by a (meaningless) modal error dialogue behind it.
No, KDE is not doing this. E.g try type sabayon from a gnome-terminal 
managed by metacity
and typing sabayon in a ktermial running in Kwin. In  the Gnome case the 
entire sabayon window is totally covered by the gnome-terminal in the 
Gnome/metacity case. In KDE the sabayon window opens on top.

To make it even worse, if you are not root, in gnome will pop up a login 
dialog on top of your
gnome terminal, totally making the "open behind thing" totally moot in 
this case.

Regards
Uno Engborg
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