kstart on fedora 13

[Roger K. Wells]

On 06/18/2010 06:38 AM, Dj YB wrote:
> On Friday June 18 2010 11:22:02 Dj YB wrote:
>    
>> On Friday June 18 2010 00:32:44 Roger K. Wells wrote:
>>      
>>> Hello
>>> We have been using kstart to launch various programs in order
>>> to keep them above other windows:
>>>
>>> kstart --ontop "program"
>>>
>>> This has been working fine on RHEL5 using KDE and CentOS 5.5
>>> using Gnome.
>>>
>>> Now on FC13 (Gnome) when ever it is executed all windows from all
>>> workspaces are moved to the current workspace.  Any minimized windows are
>>> also expanded.  This is easily demonstrated by:
>>>
>>> kstart --ontop xterm
>>>
>>> just to make sure none of our software is the culprit.
>>>
>>> Has anyone else observed this and if so what was done about it?
>>>        
>> I just tried and there is definitely something wrong in the outcome,
>> not only all the windows pop up they all get on-top so any new window get
>> hidden...
>> if there not already a bug report, please fill one and pass the link so we
>> can comment.
>>
>>      
> should have added that I am using FC13 Kde 4.4.2 compiz
>
>    
I observed this with and without compiz
> regards,
> YB.
>    


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