Hi, Markus Triska <triska@xxxxxx> writes: > > I guess that if no one else has this problem, it is a kde problem. > > That would also be my guess. I've been using Gimp with KDE 3.[012] for some > time, and although I (contrary to you) never ran into anything that I knew > should work but didn't, there surely were moments that made me doubt the > cleverness of its focus policy. Gnome 2.6.(2, currently) works better for me > with regards to that, so I recommend that you give it a shot (if possible) > and see if the problem remains, to narrow down the range of imagined > possibilities. It should be sufficient to try a different window manager, you shouldn't have to completely switch your desktop to make that happen. But then, I don't know how closely the KDE window manager is integrated with their desktop. Excuse my ignorance, but what is the default focus policy on KDE nowadays? Sven