On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 03:55:04PM +0100, Denny wrote: > On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 15:36 +0100, Dominic Thoreau wrote: > > I'd be happy, in Windows (probably in other OSes as > > well, but it seems to happen mostly in Windows for me) that I could > > stop other applications bringing themselves to the front. > > Linux has definitely got quite naughty about this lately. I don't > remember it being a problem at all a few years ago, but it's happened to > me quite a lot recently. I suspect the hate should be aimed at GNOME in > my case, but I'm not sure.
A few years ago I was developing a Linux distribution that needed to install itself from a floppy disk on a console free box. I was using a remote management card which would give me a virtual console in a java application. Each time I booted the box, over a period of 2 minutes, the java application would grab the focus no less than three times. Abigail
