change which program user is looking at

[James Laver]

On 2008-10-21 15:55, "Denny" <london.pm at metamathics.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 15:36 +0100, Dominic Thoreau wrote:
>> I'd be happy, in Windows (probably in other OSes as
>> well, but it seems to happen mostly in Windows for me) that I could
>> stop other applications bringing themselves to the front.
> 
> Linux has definitely got quite naughty about this lately.  I don't
> remember it being a problem at all a few years ago, but it's happened to
> me quite a lot recently.  I suspect the hate should be aimed at GNOME in
> my case, but I'm not sure.

Of all things with gnome, usually it's the password box that steals the
focus...

--James