This used to not be an issue in previous versions of Ubuntu. Has been for at least the last couple of versions. I have exactly the same symptoms as original poster. Problem occurs when setting shortcuts in either keyboard:shortcuts or in ccsm (compiz): general: commands
Tried changing settings in ccsm: general options: focus & raise behaviour and found that turning off 'focus prevention level' allowed for gedit and nemo to open in the foreground even with previous instances running. However not sure this is a proper fix since without modifying this, the behaviour was inconsistent (ex shortcuts to genome- calculator could bring up multiple instances in the foreground, but not with gedit or nemo), and this may allow unwanted popups in the foreground such as system updates. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1330889 Title: Keyboard shortcuts open window in background Status in Unity: New Status in unity package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Hi, When opening an application through a keyboard shortcut I defined (of the sort Ctrl+Alt+[some letter]), it often happens that the application is opened in a window that is kept in the background. The phenomenon happens every time with certain shortcuts (those pointing to thunderbird, firefox or a custom shortcut to nautilus in a specific folder), never with others (custom shortcut for gnome-terminal in a specific folder), and "depends" with yet others (it seems that a shortcut to Gedit will pop up nicely in the foreground if gedit is closed, but otherwise will open a new document and keep the gedit window in the background). The phenomenon happens on two fresh installs of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. It basically kills all the interest of defining efficient keyboard shortcuts. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1330889/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
