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Is there a way of keeping in the foreground windows while I operating on others?

I am using now XUbuntu. However, I am interested also in canonical Ubuntu.

The trick was working on XUbuntu 16.04 (One of my colleagues did it for me on my old laptop and now I have no idea about the keywords to look for to replicate the behavior). Now I am using XUbuntu 18.04 and 20.04 on the two workstations I have.

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  • If you right-click on the top border of the window, don't you have an option to "Always on top..", "Always below.." & loads of other options? You didn't give any release details...
    – guiverc
    Oct 16, 2020 at 10:10
  • updating the question
    – Leos313
    Oct 16, 2020 at 12:52
  • One simple way is to use like window manager. Resize and keep the window aside.
    – digiwizkid
    Oct 16, 2020 at 13:20
  • Question is not much more clear if you ask me. As you ask it, checking the "always to top" option will keep a window in front even if another one is active.
    – vanadium
    Oct 16, 2020 at 14:43
  • @vanadium, in your way, I should always repeat the operation. I wanted a default behaviour. I found the option I was looking for playin with the option in windows manager. I am going to post it as answer. Thank you for the hints
    – Leos313
    Oct 16, 2020 at 14:57

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I found the option in -> Window Manager -> Focus -> desable the option Automatically give focus to newly created windows. Following a screenshot for more details:

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The solution works for Xubuntu (version >= 16.04) but also can gives some useful keywords for other linux-based distribution

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