Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1196 mails)

["phanisvara das" <listmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 08 Apr 2012 22:07:38 +0530, James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>  
wrote:

> Lew Wolfgang wrote:
> > If a new Firefox
> > is started it opens under the Wireshark window, which makes sense
> > since Wireshark has the focus.
>
> If I click on something, I expect it to be up front.  If I want to  
> remain in the previous app, then clicking on it should keep me there.
>
> Again, this is not consistent.  Something is flakey somewhere.  The  
> desktop was originally click to focus.  However, there were issues with  
> it, so I changed the setting.  I've set it back again, so I'll have to  
> see how it goes.

i remember seeing discussions about this on one of the GIMP mailing lists.  
when using GIMP in multi-window mode (used to be the only one, prior to  
2.7 & 2.8), the auxiliary windows are treated differently by different  
desktop environments. i think there's also a freedesktop.org standard re.  
this, application windows, tool windows (or whatever they're called), and  
then there's window hints, and what not. KDE & GNOME handle some of these  
things differently, perhaps others too, so there's ample room for  
confusion and unpredictable behavior.

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phani.
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