GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 562476
The active window looses its focus when I open another program
Last modified: 2020-11-06 20:05:15 UTC
Please describe the problem: If I'm working on a program A, I click on an icon on the panel to open a program B, and I return working on the program A. When the window of the program B opens, it takes the focus even if I've returned working with program A. Steps to reproduce: 1. Open gedit and write some text. 2. Supposing that there's a gftp launcher on the gnome panel, click on the gftp icon to open this program. 3. Return in gedit to continue to work on the text. Actual results: When the gftp window appears, it takes the focus. So the text that I was typing in gedit appears in the "Host" field of gftp. Expected results: As I returned to gedit while the loading of gftp, gedit should keep the focus and stay the active window, and gftp should open in background. Does this happen every time? No. This bug doesn't happen with all softwares, but always happens with some combinations ( for example gedit/gftp). Other information:
This bug happens to me very often. Here's some examples of combinations: - firefox / OpenOffice.org - gedit / vlc - gedit / kate - gedit / leafpad - gedit / gcolor2 - firefox / konqueror - Etc. It's the same problem explained in this bug description, for example: - In Firefox, write some text in a field or a textarea. - Open OpenOffice.org and return in Firefox to continue to work on the text. When OpenOffice.org appears, the text is being typed in OpenOffice.org instead of in the Firefox field or textarea. It's particularly annoying when we're typing a password in Firefox, because the password begins to appear in clear in the other program.
This bug still happens with Metacity 2.34 and Gnome 3.1.
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