[Bug 67476] Re: Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground

2011-11-11 Thread Curtis Hovey
** No longer affects: null -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/67476 Title: Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 67476] Re: Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground

2010-09-16 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: metacity Importance: Unknown = Medium -- Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/67476 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list

[Bug 67476] Re: Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground

2010-05-28 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
Unfortunately, most of the comments on this bug report -- including those by jmspeex, ChrisH, Gok6tm, user2037, Michael, Thomas Folz- Donahue, Greg K Nicholson, and avdd -- have nothing to do with the bug. This bug report, like the Gnome bug report it links to, is specifically about dialogs

[Bug 67476] Re: Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground

2010-05-28 Thread jmspeex
If you look at my original comment, you'll see that the reason I commented here is because someone made my earlier bug report a duplicate of this bug. So if you're not happy, find that person and tell him/her to stop doing that. -- Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground

Re: [Bug 67476] Re: Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground

2010-05-10 Thread Greg K Nicholson
Octavio: In this point you are assuming that the user will only launch applications from an application related to the window manager. Nope. gnome-panel is neither compiz nor metacity. It doesn't matter which app does the launching. Otherwise, there is a need for a function call for a third

Re: [Bug 67476] Re: Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground

2010-05-09 Thread avdd
Quoth Octavio Alvarez (2010-05-09 15:08): I think it would be a security risk, as an application might continuously take away the focus from any application. No, I think the model Greg is proposing is essentially this: the current focus is a privilege that at most one window may have. To have

[Bug 67476] Re: Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground

2010-05-08 Thread Greg K Nicholson
In my opinion the behaviour should be this: 1. No window should ever take focus. It should only be possible to throw focus *to* another (possibly newly-opened) window. 2. When a new window appears, it should appear immediately behind the focused window (even if the focused window isn't

Re: [Bug 67476] Re: Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground

2010-05-08 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Sat, 08 May 2010 17:35:45 -0700, Greg K Nicholson g...@gkn.me.uk wrote: 3. When a launcher (or main menu item) is chosen, focus should be removed from all windows (and given to «nothing»). In this point you are assuming that the user will only launch applications from an application

[Bug 67476] Re: Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground

2010-05-07 Thread Thomas Folz-Donahue
Dronus just suggested in the duplicate ( #51242 ) that there could be timed behavior to determine if a new window should have focus, but that's an intentional race condition. It would be better to see if the user has done anything since the window was requested... somehow... The window manager

Re: [Bug 67476] Re: Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground

2010-05-07 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Fri, 07 May 2010 16:22:30 -0700, Thomas Folz-Donahue eigenlam...@gmail.com wrote: Dronus just suggested in the duplicate ( #51242 ) that there could be timed behavior to determine if a new window should have focus, but that's an intentional race condition. It would be better to see if

[Bug 67476] Re: Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground

2009-08-24 Thread Michael
I am using compiz and I am having the same problem. I wasn't able to find an option to change that behavior in ccsm - hints welcome. The problem also occurs when I launch an application that takes a view seconds to load, e.g. Firefox. When I am doing something else while waiting for Firefox to

[Bug 67476] Re: Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground

2009-08-24 Thread mac_v
** Project changed: hundredpapercuts = null -- Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/67476 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list

[Bug 67476] Re: Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground

2009-06-17 Thread David Siegel
Not a paper cut because it is too complicated to fix, but this is a huge usability problem. Does compiz exhibit the same behavior? It may be a consolation that we now turn compiz on by default, and more and more computers support it, so many new users may not be exposed to this behavior. **

[Bug 67476] Re: Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground

2009-06-16 Thread dahlberg
** Also affects: hundredpapercuts Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/67476 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. --

[Bug 67476] Re: Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground

2009-03-25 Thread user2037
Newly started applications often appear in front of Gnome-terminal when trying to type. When using focus-follows-mouse this is a disruptive, counter-intuitive behavior. -- Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/67476 You received this bug

[Bug 67476] Re: Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground

2008-12-18 Thread Gok6tm
The focus is really particular for me because it 's the opposate case disappoint me ! open gimp with a image, take nautilus open image with gimp and ... gimp stay background with the new image open, similar thing with gedit / geany and it's not usuable -- Dialogs of background applications pop

[Bug 67476] Re: Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground

2008-08-28 Thread Chris
Setting the focus_new_windows key to strict has fixed this problem for me (at least with update-manager--haven't tried much else as yet). Has anything been decided on what to do in future? This really is an extremely annoying feature and dangerous to boot. As others have noted, it's not that

[Bug 67476] Re: Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground

2008-05-08 Thread ChrisH
This is related to: https://launchpad.net/bugs/227214 This focus stealing problem is really annoying in IM clients where focus gets stolen from your conversation window by the contacts window when one of your friends logs in or out... this can happen every few seconds. -- Dialogs of

[Bug 67476] Re: Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground

2008-04-02 Thread Octavio Alvarez
Any news on this issue? It gets very annoying (and dangerous), particularly when typing passwords. Load Pidgin, Evolution and other applications at the same time, each of which ask for a password. Try typing the corresponding password for each prompt as soon as you see it (without cursing during

[Bug 67476] Re: Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground

2008-02-01 Thread ThomasNovin
I just now had a problem with update-manager stealing focus. This resulted in me answering some question in the update-manager terminal without having a clue to what the question was (because I was typing like crazy when the focus stealing occured). -- Dialogs of background applications pop up

[Bug 67476] Re: Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground

2008-02-01 Thread ThomasNovin
This is related to https://launchpad.net/bugs/54300 -- Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/67476 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list

[Bug 67476] Re: Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground

2006-10-23 Thread Sebastien Bacher
** Changed in: metacity (Ubuntu) Importance: Wishlist = Medium -- Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground https://launchpad.net/bugs/67476 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs

[Bug 67476] Re: Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground

2006-10-22 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
** Changed in: metacity (upstream) Bugwatch: GNOME Bug Tracker #364059 = GNOME Bug Tracker #357702 -- Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground https://launchpad.net/bugs/67476 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 67476] Re: Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground

2006-10-22 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Which new window steals your focus? Metacity has a focus stealing prevention mechanism, for example new chat windows will not open in the front. So I thought that dialogs are the only ones that still cause an error. -- Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground

[Bug 67476] Re: Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground

2006-10-22 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: metacity (upstream) Status: Unknown = Confirmed -- Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground https://launchpad.net/bugs/67476 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs

[Bug 67476] Re: Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground

2006-10-22 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Thank you for the bug and upstream pointer ** Changed in: metacity (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Wishlist Assignee: (unassigned) = Ubuntu Desktop Bugs Status: Unconfirmed = Confirmed -- Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground

[Bug 67476] Re: Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground

2006-10-21 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Run the attached script, put another window in front of the main window and wait two seconds. A dialog will be shown in front of all windows. ** Attachment added: a small python script http://librarian.launchpad.net/4921663/image_neurosis.py ** Description changed: If an application is not

[Bug 67476] Re: Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground

2006-10-21 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #364059 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364059 ** Also affects: metacity (upstream) via http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364059 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- Dialogs of background applications pop up in the

[Bug 67476] Re: Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground

2006-10-21 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
** Description changed: If an application is not in front and opens a dialog, the dialog will steal the focus and will be shown in front of all windows that cover the application's main window. This behavior can be seen e.g. in update- manger or evolution. The dialog should not be

[Bug 67476] Re: Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground

2006-10-21 Thread jmspeex
I don't know why the bugs I filed *earlier* are being marked as duplicates of this bug -- especially considering that what I reported is much more general than this. The problem is not restricted to dialogs. New windows -- in general -- should not steal the focus. Not only can this be a security