Bug#361273: gnome-terminal: focus is not transferred to
application started from terminal
Elias Pschernig
elias at users.sf.net
Fri Apr 7 15:24:26 UTC 2006
Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 2.14.0-1
Severity: minor
First of all, I'm not sure which package to report this to, since
gnome-terminal is only the application which shows the bug, but probably
it's happening in one of the libaries.
Until recently (before my last apt-get update), if I started an
application from gnome-terminal, its window would pop up in the
foreground, and it would have focus and I could start working with it.
Now, when I start an application from gnome-terminal, it is started
somewhere in the background, and its taskbar button starts flashing.
This is rather confusing to me, so I'm reporting it here as a bug. Maybe
it could be made as a configuration option, so apt-get would bring up its
config-file dialog and ask if it really should change the behavior, or
something like that? (For me, the right thing to do would seem to keep
the old behavior - I start an application, and so it gets started in the
foreground, but well, I'm aware I'm quite an old-time linux user and
maybe the new behavior really is easier to use if you aren't used to the
old one..)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-2006-02-09
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii gnome-control-center 1:2.10.1-2 The GNOME Control Center for GNOME
ii gnome-terminal-data 2.14.0-1 Data files for the GNOME terminal
ii libatk1.0-0 1.11.4-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libbonobo2-0 2.14.0-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libc6 2.3.6-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgconf2-4 2.14.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglade2-0 1:2.5.1-2 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.10.1-2 The GLib library of C routines
hi libgnome2-0 2.14.0-2 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomeui-0 2.14.0-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
hi libgnomevfs2-0 2.14.0-1 GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.16-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii liborbit2 1:2.14.0-1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.12.0-2 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libstartup-notification0 0.8-1 library for program launch feedbac
ii libvte4 1:0.12.0-1 Terminal emulator widget for GTK+
ii libx11-6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-5 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii scrollkeeper 0.3.14-10 A free electronic cataloging syste
Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
pn yelp <none> (no description available)
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