Re: New windows open in background

["Matt Morgan" <minxmertzmomo@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Matt Morgan <minxmertzmomo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx> 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

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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