Yee haw, I don't know how this problem was solved after all, but after updating to 15.04 all applications started through keyboard shortcuts become active (they appear in the foreground with keyboard focus).
E. g. keyboard focus is in the input field when gnome-calculator is started. To whom it may concern, but thank you very very much! Everything works fine now again. Michael -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1339714 Title: Application windows do not become active when started via keyboard shortcuts Status in Unity: New Status in unity package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I used to start Gnome-calculator and Thunderbird via my keyboard short cuts. This used to work very well andd handy, for my keyboard has some extra keys for those purposes. Now I can still start the desired applications, but I have to do an extra click (or alt-tab) on their window to get them active. This ist particularly annoying and unhandy for the calculator. I tested this contra-productive behaviour on thunderbird and on gnome-calculator. This bug seems to have occured about May 2014, and is active in 14.04 (my desktop computer) and 13.10 (my laptop computer). I consider this a very small bug, and so i hope this is really easy to fix. Thank you in advance, Michael Ubuntu 14.04 AMD 64 Bit michael@desktop-pc:~$ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Release: 14.04 michael@desktop-pc:~$ apt-cache policy unity unity: Installiert: 7.2.0+14.04.20140423-0ubuntu1.2 Installationskandidat: 7.2.1+14.04.20140513-0ubuntu2 Versionstabelle: 7.2.1+14.04.20140513-0ubuntu2 0 500 http://at.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages *** 7.2.0+14.04.20140423-0ubuntu1.2 0 500 http://at.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 7.2.0+14.04.20140416-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://at.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: unity 7.2.0+14.04.20140423-0ubuntu1.2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-30.55-generic 3.13.11.2 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-30-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,snap,grid,place,imgpng,vpswitch,resize,gnomecompat,mousepoll,move,session,regex,unitymtgrabhandles,animation,wall,fade,expo,scale,ezoom,workarounds,unityshell] CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Wed Jul 9 15:19:58 2014 SourcePackage: unity UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-29 (71 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1339714/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp