On 2/22/07, Steve Spiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Toby Smithe wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 22:35 +0000, baza wrote: > >> On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 22:30 +0000, Alan Pope wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 09:05:57PM +0000, Robin Menneer wrote: >>> >>>> My ubutu has an unwelcome of opening new files behind the current window, >>>> not in front of it. How do I reverse this, please,so that by default, the >>>> new file opens in front ? >>>> >>> Forgive me if what I am about to suggest implies that you are some kind of imbecile, that is not my intention.. >>> >>> I have seen this problem occur when a user double clicks an icon in a window (such as a file in a nautilus file browser) and doesn't wait for the resulting program to finish loading, but instead >>> clicks again somewhere in that same window. This could be clicking a third time on the icon in question, or maybe clicking somewhere else. This causes the desktop "focus" to be trained on that window >>> and not the new one appearing, so the new one appears "behind" the current one. >>> >>> Could that be it or am I barking up the wrong tree? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Al. >>> >>> >> It's not you. Mine has started doing this since I installed Beryl. It's >> annoying eh? >> > > Yes - focus stealing prevention in Beryl is pretty broken atm. > > Been lurking for a while, first time I had an answer for a problem! I'm at work now so can't tell you exactly where to look, but in the settings manager there is a setting for focus stealing prevention - set it to none and the problem goes away. Or at least it did for me. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Sorry, but there is no menu heading for *settings manager* ! --
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