On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 15:00 -0400, Matt Morgan wrote:
> My 18 month-old was playing with the computer for a while, and now new
> windows are opening in the background.
>
> This is on Fedora 9. I googled this and searched the list, but can't
> find any help. I'm not using the fancy new desktop stuff (compiz,
> desktop-effects, whatever we call it). Any suggestions?

The answer may depend on what desktop are you using, which you don't
state.

poc

Gnome. Thanks. More info: If I click on the window in the window list, the window gets focus, but does not come to the foreground. Only clicking on the window brings it to the foreground.