Shy Applications

[Miles Lane]

On 1/19/06, Paul Dickson <paul at permanentmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 01:50:24 -0500, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> > Yes, I have noticed it also...no clue as to why.
>
> With the exception of gimp, it seems that if I start a program from a
> Gnome menu it gets placed in front, but if I start the same program from
> gnome-terminal (or any other program) it gets placed behind (gnomines,
> gnome-sudoku, and gweled, abiword, kjumpingcube, and bittorrent).  I also
> tried about a half-dozen of the system-config-* tools (some allow the
> window manager to float the window to the side so it can be seen when
> hidden like system-config-lvm) and they all do it.
>
> Program's like sylpheed seem to carry this throughout.  Opening the config
> or filter settings from the summary window and then closing it, the
> summary window gets placed in back of the message view and folder view
> windows.
>
> Openmotif programs like xephem seem immune, but both kde and gnome
> applications get hit by this.

Hi Paul,
Have you submitted a bug report?  I am seeing exactly the same
behavior (apps started from gnome-terminal are placed behind the
gnome-terminal window I started the program from).  By the way,
this looks like a problem that needs fixing upstream, because I
just noticed this happening on my Ubuntu Dapper installation
(Dapper+updates is to Ubuntu as FC5t2+updates is to Fedora Core).

      Miles