On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Matt Morgan <minxmertzmomo(a)gmail.com>wrote:
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net>wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 20:48 -0400, Matt Morgan wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
> > <pocallaghan(a)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.
> >
> This behavior can be changed through: System->Preferences->Look and
> Feel->Windows
>
I checked there but don't see a setting for this. I see
Select Windows when the mouse moves over them
Sorry, accidentally clicked send. Any way, I see
Window Selection
select windows when the mouse moves over them
raise selected windows after an interval
Titlebar Action
double-click title bar to perform this action:
Movement Key
To move a window, press and hold this key then grab the window:
None of those has to do with whether a window comes to the foreground when
it has focus.
Here's some more info: Firefox actually works properly. When I alt-tab to
it, or click on it in the window list in the taskbar, it gets focus and
comes to the foreground as I would expect. So far nothing else (Thunderbird,
Wesnoth, Gnome file windows, for example) works right. For everything else,
they get focus (ie I can see the foreground window lose focus) but stay in
the background, either alt-tabbing or clicking on the window list.
Thanks,
Matt