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

[John Summerfied]

Uno Engborg wrote:
> John Summerfied wrote:
> 
>> Uno Engborg wrote:
>>
>>> Larry tb skrev:
>>>
>>>> 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 ?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> 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.


I know you think you understand what you think I said but in fact what I 
said may lack some clarity:-)


KDE has been opening behind for years. I can click an icon to start 
something, such as Mozilla, and it opens behind everything.

Further checking shows that, when I start kwrite in a konsole window, it 
opens in front if konsole has focus, behind if not, and very cleverly, 
"kwrite&" followed by further typing has kwrite opening behind.

I can't repeat this with gvim, but that may be a timing issue.

Probably the goal in Gnome was similar, but always there will be 
implementation details that differ and corner cases where different 
implementors make different choices - or completely overlook that a 
choice can be made.




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John

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