New windows open behind the active window

mohtasham1983 · 2010-07-31 11:42:47

Hi,

Recently I've noticed that when I open a new application, it opens behind my active window. For example, let's say I'm on my browser and need to open terminal. When I click on the terminal icon on top panel, the new terminal goes behind my browser. It's not a major problem, but sometimes it becomes confusing. That's why I thought it would be great to get this working again.

I'm using gnome without compiz on a 64 bit machine.

Thanks

karol · 2010-07-31 12:23:02

Maybe you're using some settings like "open in background" or "keep in foreground" - some WMs can "pin" windows so that those apps stay on top, maybe you keep your browser "pinned".

mohtasham1983 · 2010-07-31 18:19:41

I guess that's what happening to me. I just don't know I can change that option in metacity settings.

karol · 2010-07-31 18:27:34

Do you have some sort of window decoration like 'x' to close the app, some other icon to minimize etc.? If so, maybe there's another one to pin it, top left corner maybe.

hokasch · 2010-07-31 18:38:12

If the problem really is a specific application set to always on top, this can be changed in the context menu by right-clicking the title bar.

Perberos · 2010-07-31 19:38:47

Also happens in xfc4.

karol · 2010-07-31 19:42:38

Perberos wrote:

Also happens in xfc4.

IIRC correctly xfce did have a button to pin the window to keep it on top but I don't recall that 'happening' by itself.

stqn · 2010-07-31 22:41:35

It happens in XFCE with Thunar, which almost always opens below other windows here. It has nothing to do with « depth-pinning » (there's no button for that) and I tried changing a few window manager settings without effect... Thankfully only Thunar does that.

I remember having problems under Ubuntu when I had enabled the option not to raise windows when they were activated. Might it be it?

Edit: Thunar doesn't open below other windows anymore when I disable « Focus stealing prevention » in the Window Manager Tweaks. I'll keep it enabled though because I *hate* focus stealing.

Last edited by stqn (2010-08-01 11:12:05)

karol · 2010-07-31 22:43:56

stqn wrote:

I remember having problems under Ubuntu when I had enabled the option not to raise windows when they were activated. Might it be it?

Yes, that could be it. If you instruct the window manager *not* to steal focus when a new window opens, that's what you will get.

mohtasham1983 · 2010-08-01 02:01:18

This was a universal problem and nothing to a specific application. For some reason the problem is gone when started my computer today. Maybe the latest update fixed this issue.

Perberos · 2010-08-01 05:29:56

http://martesmartes.blogspot.com/2010/0 … aling.html <- !

ICCCM?
With this settings, I have not problems.

Arch Linux

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