is it possible with ubuntu oneiric to choose if a window/application will be "active on screen" or not once it is launched? once upon a time, i was using debian and i could choose not (ie every new application launched would open in a window that would nicely wait until i click on it to be on screen....) I have looked for the same for ubuntu oneiric but i can't find this option....
Indeed my problem is: i work (a looooooooooot!) with a matlab program that will open quite some new graphic windows once it is launched. and i would like to be able to keep using my laptop while it is running this program, and for that i need the windows not to be active on screen and prevent me from using my laptop....
any help would be most welcome!! thanks! Lucile
EDIT: sorry English is not my mother tongue...
@Jo-Erlend Schinstad: by active on screen i meant "open in focus" I need the graphic windows from matlab to open (so that i can save the graphics) but not to appear on screen, on top of the window i am using at that moment, and then preventing me to use my laptop while the pg is running.... (hope this is clearer....)
@yossile: i did not figure out how to comment your post so:
Thank you for your very clear answer but.... i still can't make it work... i followed your instruction step by step but still if i run the matlab program and then use mozilla firefox for example, the graphic windows still open on top of the firefox window, preventing me to use it.
for the details: i added the following value in focus prevent window (thanks to the grab button): & class=com-mathworks-util-PostVMInit i've also tried & name=sun-awt-X11-XFramePeer & title=MATLAB R2011b (and i tried with window type, role and id but for those i couldn't grab the value automatically with the grab button)
So if you have any other suggestion I would be very grateful to hear it :-) (a big thank you anyway)