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All my packages are fully up to date. Running Gnome 3.26.2. Whenever clicking to focus and raise a window, another entirely unrelated window pops up. This problem has been occurring for the past few weeks now, I think it must be something to do with one of the more recent Gnome updates
Steps to reproduce:
1. Open one window, A, of any program. Tile to one side of the screen.
2. Open a second window, B, of any program. Tile to the other side of the screen.
3. Open a third window, C, of any program. This time do not tile it, hover it over B.
4. Focus the window A.
Expected outcome:
A comes into focus, B and C are still visible. i.e. C is still displayed hovering over B.
Actual outcome:
A comes into focus, yet B gets displayed over the top of C. Essentially pushing C to the back, hiding it.
A video of reproducing the issue, following the provided steps: https://streamable.com/21r7q
It seems I am having the same symptoms as stated by this Ubuntu user here, who to explains the problem a little better than I can: https://askubuntu.com/questions/970956/ … foreground
If anybody has any advice for me on resolving this issue, all input is welcome. Thanks!
Last edited by numb3rz (2017-11-14 12:26:15)
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I guess this is probably by design. In Gnome 3.26, tiled windows are kind of "joined". You can resize one of the windows, and the other will be resized along to take the free space. Apparently, this is being treated as one group of windows. If you bring one of the two to the foreground, the other one comes along. Whether this design is desirable or not is a matter of discussion. In some use cases where you have two much related windows of different applications, it can be handy. "Untile" one of the windows to break the magic.
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Thanks for the reply! I see the commit now, apparently there's a feature request to make this optional. Hopefully it's resolved soon.
Commit: https://git.gnome.org/browse/mutter/com … a0f564c1e0
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