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

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John Summerfied wrote:

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.


Thats strange. On my FC4, everything, including Firefox, always opens on top (Thank god!)


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 just tried kwrite for the first time on this machine.
The first time, it open behind. But every other time since... its opened in front. I can't figure out how to get it to open behind. ;-() (not that I would want it to anyway).

So I can't explain why things seem to work differently, unless its an FC5 vrs FC4 thing.


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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