Seems to be fixed by now. Indeed kvm no longer does this on none of the 2 distributions that I currently use (Debian 8.6.0 and Kubuntu 14.04.5)
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1500935 Title: Qemu / KVM always wants to be on top Status in QEMU: Incomplete Bug description: Whenever I pass with the mouse over the KVM (qemu) window, it automatically raises on top, obscuring other windows on the same desktop, which is rather intrusive... No other application does this. > dpkg -l qemu-kvm Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==============-============-============-================================= ii qemu-kvm 2.0.0+dfsg-2 amd64 QEMU Full virtualization To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1500935/+subscriptions