OpenOffice always on top in SuSE 10.1
I posted this to the openSuSE list, but got no response and I googled to no avail, so I am trying here, maybe someone can help. I upgraded my SuSE Pro 10.0 to 10.1 with the non-oss-DVD that I downloaded from the openSUSE site. (I am still waiting for SUSE Pro 10.1 to reach South Africa) I use GNOME as desktop. Now I have an over-eager OpenOffice. When you open a document with OpenOffice, it keeps on popping up to the top of the focus stack and it will even move itself to the current focussed desktop from another desktop. It seems that it detects some change every 200 milliseconds or so. Even using a drop-down list in OpenOffice is very difficult. If you scroll down the open list too long, it close the list. You have to open the drop-down list, move quickly to the item you want and click, otherwise your list is closed. Opening a dialogue in OpenOffice will keep the dialogue on top, but I can see in the window border that the focus keeps on reverting to the main window behind. Using another application while an OpenOffice document is open is extremely annoying, as the OpenOffice doc keeps on grabbing the focus. For instance, typing something in another application. You type two characters and then you are suddenly typing in the OpenOffice doc. So, to type something in the other application, you type two characters then click on your application to get focus back, type another two characters, click, type, click, etc. Has anybody seen this behaviour? Any ideas what this can be? I already tried playing with the focus-follow-mouse settings in GNOME, but it makes no difference. Thanks -- Andre Truter | Software Consultant | Registered Linux user #185282 Jabber: andre_tux@jabberafrica.org | http://www.trusoft.co.za ~ A dinosaur is a salamander designed to Mil Spec ~
On 29.05.06,21:10, Andre Truter wrote:
I posted this to the openSuSE list, but got no response and I googled to no avail, so I am trying here, maybe someone can help.
I upgraded my SuSE Pro 10.0 to 10.1 with the non-oss-DVD that I downloaded from the openSUSE site. (I am still waiting for SUSE Pro 10.1 to reach South Africa)
I use GNOME as desktop.
Now I have an over-eager OpenOffice. When you open a document with OpenOffice, it keeps on popping up to the top of the focus stack and it will even move itself to the current focussed desktop from another desktop. It seems that it detects some change every 200 milliseconds or so. Even using a drop-down list in OpenOffice is very difficult. If you scroll down the open list too long, it close the list. You have to open the drop-down list, move quickly to the item you want and click, otherwise your list is closed.
Opening a dialogue in OpenOffice will keep the dialogue on top, but I can see in the window border that the focus keeps on reverting to the main window behind.
Using another application while an OpenOffice document is open is extremely annoying, as the OpenOffice doc keeps on grabbing the focus.
For instance, typing something in another application. You type two characters and then you are suddenly typing in the OpenOffice doc. So, to type something in the other application, you type two characters then click on your application to get focus back, type another two characters, click, type, click, etc.
Has anybody seen this behaviour?
Any ideas what this can be?
I already tried playing with the focus-follow-mouse settings in GNOME, but it makes no difference.
Can it be this bug in OpenOffice 2.0.2? http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=64530 http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=24840&highlight=focus - Jostein
Thanks
-- Andre Truter | Software Consultant | Registered Linux user #185282 Jabber: andre_tux@jabberafrica.org | http://www.trusoft.co.za
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On 5/29/06, Jostein Berntsen <jbernts@broadpark.no> wrote:
Can it be this bug in OpenOffice 2.0.2?
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=64530 http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=24840&highlight=focus
No, I doubt it. It grabs focus in less than a second. I am literally having a mouse-clicking contest with OOo when I try to use any other application, or even a dialogue box in OOo. My autosave is set to 15 minutes and I disabled it to test, but OOo is still taking over my desktop. -- Andre Truter | Software Consultant | Registered Linux user #185282 Jabber: andre_tux@jabberafrica.org | http://www.trusoft.co.za ~ A dinosaur is a salamander designed to Mil Spec ~
Andre Truter wrote:
For instance, typing something in another application. You type two characters and then you are suddenly typing in the OpenOffice doc. So, to type something in the other application, you type two characters then click on your application to get focus back, type another two characters, click, type, click, etc.
Has anybody seen this behaviour?
I haven't. To verify, I started up OO, prior to writing this reply.
James Knott wrote:
Andre Truter wrote:
For instance, typing something in another application. You type two characters and then you are suddenly typing in the OpenOffice doc. So, to type something in the other application, you type two characters then click on your application to get focus back, type another two characters, click, type, click, etc.
Has anybody seen this behaviour?
I haven't. To verify, I started up OO, prior to writing this reply.
Forgot to mention, I'm running KDE.
On 5/29/06, James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com> wrote:
James Knott wrote:
Has anybody seen this behaviour?
I haven't. To verify, I started up OO, prior to writing this reply.
Forgot to mention, I'm running KDE.
Hmmm.. I suppsoe OOo is clashing with someting in GNOME. I originally thought it was the auto-focus function in GNOME, but I disabled this and it is still doing it. -- Andre Truter | Software Consultant | Registered Linux user #185282 Jabber: andre_tux@jabberafrica.org | http://www.trusoft.co.za ~ A dinosaur is a salamander designed to Mil Spec ~
On 5/30/06, Andre Truter <andre.truter@gmail.com> wrote:
Hmmm.. I suppsoe OOo is clashing with someting in GNOME. I originally thought it was the auto-focus function in GNOME, but I disabled this and it is still doing it.
OK, solved (Kind of in any case) It has something to do with my specific settings in GNOME (I think) I created a new user on the machine and first started a session in TWM and tested. OOo behaves normally. Then I started a session for the test user under GNOME. OOo still reacts normally. No annoying popping up. I moved my .ooo-2.0 directory and started OOo, and it still does it, so it must be a setting in GNOME or gconf or something.. This is like searching for a needle in a haystack blindfolded... I suppose one way of fixing it is to start with a fresh GNOME configuration from scratch... -- Andre Truter | Software Consultant | Registered Linux user #185282 Jabber: andre_tux@jabberafrica.org | http://www.trusoft.co.za ~ A dinosaur is a salamander designed to Mil Spec ~
On 30.05.06,00:25, Andre Truter wrote:
On 5/30/06, Andre Truter <andre.truter@gmail.com> wrote:
Hmmm.. I suppsoe OOo is clashing with someting in GNOME. I originally thought it was the auto-focus function in GNOME, but I disabled this and it is still doing it.
OK, solved (Kind of in any case) It has something to do with my specific settings in GNOME (I think)
I created a new user on the machine and first started a session in TWM and tested. OOo behaves normally. Then I started a session for the test user under GNOME. OOo still reacts normally. No annoying popping up.
I moved my .ooo-2.0 directory and started OOo, and it still does it, so it must be a setting in GNOME or gconf or something..
This is like searching for a needle in a haystack blindfolded...
I suppose one way of fixing it is to start with a fresh GNOME configuration from scratch...
Maybe you can run "gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome" for you and test user to see if there are any differences that can cause this? - Jostein -- Jostein Berntsen <jbernts@broadpark.no>
On 5/30/06, Jostein Berntsen <jbernts@broadpark.no> wrote:
Maybe you can run "gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome" for you and test user to see if there are any differences that can cause this?
Hmm.. THere will be thousands of differences as my GNOME settings have been carried over for the past few years, while the test user has a fresh setup with no applications configured. Maybe I can compare the common portions. Hopefully the problem is not caused by settings of some other app like evolution for instance. -- Andre Truter | Software Consultant | Registered Linux user #185282 Jabber: andre_tux@jabberafrica.org | http://www.trusoft.co.za ~ A dinosaur is a salamander designed to Mil Spec ~
On 5/30/06, Jostein Berntsen <jbernts@broadpark.no> wrote:
Maybe you can run "gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome" for you and test user to see if there are any differences that can cause this?
Well, this actually worked! I was very sceptical about finding the offending difference, but I guess I was lucky. It is a keyboard setting.. /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/general: disable_sysconfig_changed_warning Mine was set to 'true' while the test user's was set to 'false'. I changed mine to 'true' and OOo started to behave again. I don't even understand what that setting is supposed to be. What does sysconfig changes have to do with the keybord? But it worked. Thanks Jostein! -- Andre Truter | Software Consultant | Registered Linux user #185282 Jabber: andre_tux@jabberafrica.org | http://www.trusoft.co.za ~ A dinosaur is a salamander designed to Mil Spec ~
On 5/30/06, Jostein Berntsen <jbernts@broadpark.no> wrote:
Maybe you can run "gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome" for you and test user to see if there are any differences that can cause this?
Well, this actually worked! I was very sceptical about finding the offending difference, but I guess I was lucky. It is a keyboard setting.. /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/general: disable_sysconfig_changed_warning Mine was set to 'true' while the test user's was set to 'false'. I changed mine to 'true' and OOo started to behave again. I don't even understand what that setting is supposed to be. What does sysconfig changes have to do with the keybord? But it worked. Thanks Jostein! -- Andre Truter | Software Consultant | Registered Linux user #185282 Jabber: andre_tux@jabberafrica.org | http://www.trusoft.co.za ~ A dinosaur is a salamander designed to Mil Spec ~
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