BonEcho freaks out with multiple desktops in XFCE4

tinix · 2006-12-03 07:41:14

I'm new to Arch, but I've been using Linux for years. I've never had this happen before, but BonEcho/Firefox is freaking out on my desktop. It works fine on my laptop, which is also running Arch, and both are running the same programs and my laptop home directoy is rsynced with my desktops, so both use the same configs.

Anyways... When I click a link, or even run 'firefox http://www.google.com' in a terminal, the firefox window always switches to the desktop i'm currently on, and it raises itself to the top. I prefer to keep firefox on my first deskop, thunderbird in my second, rss in my third, web dev stuf and gfx design stuff in the next two, a few more for other assorted things, and the last for gaim and xchat. I've been using Slackware for years, and this never happened, and it doesn't even happen on my laptop using the same xfce and firefox config...

I really don't know how to describe it. I use firefox in single window mode with tabmixplus tweaked to my liking... I hate the new 2.0 behaviour. Anyways.. When I tell firefox to open a link... it does open it... but the firefox window is moved to the desktop that I'm currently using, and it's raised to the top... It's extremely annoying. I suppose I could always do a video of it... but only if required.

Has anyone else had this problem? I have tried running firefox in safe-mode and even created a new profile... It still happens.

baze · 2006-12-04 23:08:50

happens here too and it's really annoying sometimes.

tinix · 2006-12-04 23:36:40

Well at least I know I'm not the only one. It's not just annoying sometimes... It's annoying all the time. I'm so sick of having to copy urls, switch desktops, open a new tab,paste in the address bar, hit enter, and go back to what I was doing. I'm used to seeing an interesting link, clicking it, and contiuing with what I was doing, to go back and read the linked page later.

ralvy · 2006-12-04 23:45:09

Never noticed it until today. Now I see that it happens every time, and probably has been happening ever since I upgraded to Firefox 2. You're definitely not the only one.

Another problem with Firefox 2 is that downloads to a vfat partition always get an additional extension appended to them. So I end up with

filename.tgz.tgz

or

filename.tgz.exe

This is a Firefox bug I haven't seen for years.

tinix · 2006-12-04 23:59:35

Hmm... This didn't happen to me in Slackware. I just simply hooked the official installer using LD_PRELOAD to create a Slackware package... I'm just gonna install the official 2.0 to ~/bin/ until this is fixed. I really hate how I told pacman to install Firefox, and it installed this customized, hacked up, messed up, version...

But yea... If you tell pacman to install Firefox... You're not getting the official Firefox.

ralvy · 2006-12-05 01:06:56

This behavior doesn't happen under KDE. Only Xfce. I use both, and the Xfce I use is the svn version found in unstable.

Using the official binary that mozilla offers will not change this behavior.

tinix · 2006-12-05 01:37:01

I didn't have this problem under Slackware with XFCE4-svn so I'm guessing this is either a recent change, or a bug in one of the dependencies? I will be switching to the official binary from mozilla though, becuase I have a few other issues with 'Bon Echo'.

ralvy · 2006-12-05 06:50:59

tinix wrote:

I didn't have this problem under Slackware with XFCE4-svn so I'm guessing this is either a recent change, or a bug in one of the dependencies? I will be switching to the official binary from mozilla though, becuase I have a few other issues with 'Bon Echo'.

Just tried this under Slackware 11, but I only have Xfce4 4.4RC2 running there. It works fine, just like you say. I think this has to do with the way Xfce4-svn is compiled in Arch unstable.

whompus · 2006-12-05 18:23:54

This has recently started happening to me using Opera, maybe its a xfce-svn problem!

ralvy · 2006-12-05 18:43:40

At the risk of starting a duplicating thread, I started a new one that directs the attention at xfce4-svn instead of Firefox, in order to alert the Shadowhand, the maintainer of the xfce4-svn here. Here's the thread:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=27560

slackhack · 2006-12-05 20:25:35

xfce4 -> settings manager -> window manager tweaks -> focus tab -> "activate focus stealing prevention"

ralvy · 2006-12-05 20:31:21

slackhack wrote:

xfce4 -> settings manager -> window manager tweaks -> focus tab -> "activate focus stealing prevention"

Works like a charm. Thanks.

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BonEcho freaks out with multiple desktops in XFCE4

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