Windows "popping under"

Tony Arnold tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk
Tue Apr 12 09:17:11 UTC 2005


Michale,

On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 03:26 -0400, Michael R Head wrote:

> The problem is that some dialogs are "popping under" the parent windows.
> I've heard of this problem from a friend that was using GNOME on another
> distribution a few months ago. I hadn't personally experienced it myself
> until I put hoary on my laptop. 

> 1) Has anyone else seen this?

Yes, it happens to me when I click on a link in an e-mail message in
Evolution, Firefox starts up, but under the Evolution window. I tend to
run Evo full screen.

> 2) Is there a way to cause this not to happen?

I'd like to know the answer to this one too!

Regards,
Tony.
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