[ubuntu-uk] Lost again

baza baza at themauvezone.fsnet.co.uk
Wed Feb 21 22:35:57 GMT 2007


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?

Baz
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