[ubuntu-uk] Lost again

[Robin Menneer]

On 2/22/07, Steve Spiller <fred at ezcomputers.co.uk> wrote:
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> 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.
>
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Sorry, but there is no menu heading for *settings manager*  !

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