On Tuesday 02 November 2010 20:37:39 Josef Wolf wrote:
Hello,
Sometimes, my KDE desktop gets into a mode where new windows are opened behind already existing windows without the focus. I find this mode very annoying, and have no idea how to switch back to the "normal" mode, where new windows are created on top of existing windows and are given the focus automatically.
I have no idea how this strange mode is activated. I guess it is some kind of key combination, since (AFAICS) it almost always happens when I'm switching between applications/desktops/KDE-Konsole-terminals back and forth very fast with ALT-TAB, CTRL-Fx, SHIFT-left/right keys and hit some other key by accident.
Sounds like focus stealing prevention - see Han Wen Kam's recent blogs on the subject: http://sellingfreesoftwareforaliving.blogspot.com/2010/10/focus-user-is- king.html http://sellingfreesoftwareforaliving.blogspot.com/2010/11/focus-stealing- settings-in-kde-and.html If a particular app opens a new window and doesn't set the timestamp on the new window correctly, this can lead focus stealing prevention to think it is an unrelated window that should open but not get focus. Does this happen with any particular app? There aren't any keyboard shortcuts to change focus stealing prevention so I think your guess is incorrect. Will -- Will Stephenson, openSUSE Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org