Windows "popping under"

[Olafur Arason]

There is an easy way to prevent this annoying behaviour. When you expect a
dialog box, don't go back to work in the window until the dialog box comes
up. If you go back to working in the parent window then this is a feature
because a dialog doesn't suddenly popup distracting you, and if you want it
it's the window that has bold text in the window list bar. If it
doesn't work like
that it's a bug a should be filed.

Olafur Arason

On 4/15/05, Erik Bågfors <zindar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, It's SOOO annoying...
> 
> >From this page
> http://gnome.org/start/2.10/notes/rnwhatsnew.html
> 
> "In the past, while typing something into one application when
> suddenly your instant messenger offered a chat request from your
> friend, your words would be typed into the chat window. Imagine if you
> were typing your password at the time. This should no longer happen in
> GNOME 2.10."
> 
> So, is this intentional?
> 
> /Erik
> 
> On 4/12/05, Michael R Head <burner at suppressingfire.org> wrote:
> > I've been using ubuntu on my desktop for a while, and debian on my
> > laptop for quite some time. Now that hoary is out, I've finally migrated
> > my laptop to ubuntu. Unfortunately, there is a problem. I've searched
> > the web and the archives about it, but I haven't seen anything else
> > about it.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > The biggest offender is evolution+seahorse. I sign all my emails, so
> > evolution pops up a dialog asking me either to enter my key's password
> > or to authorize the use of the stored password. This dialog appears
> > below the email composition window, which is very annoying and
> > confusing.
> >
> > So I guess I have two questions:
> >
> > 1) Has anyone else seen this?
> >
> > 2) Is there a way to cause this not to happen?
> >
> > thanks,
> > mike
> >
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