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I am using a Microsoft Natural® Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 on my Ubuntu 14.04 x64 and since I upgraded from Ubuntu 13.10 I noticed that the Calculator application does not get focus when started from the keyboard shortcut. It gets started like the last (NOT previous) application in the stack.

It gets focus when opened from dash.

I don't know what configuration output to provide. Any suggestions?

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What you have discovered seems to be a bug related to some applications launched from (unity)*-settings-daemon. The bug is reported here.

However, it exist multiple easy workarounds to this annoying issue;

The one I will suggest, is to define your own keyboard shortcut, and reassign the calculator button.

keyboard shortcut

Another solution is to:

Use eg. CompizConfig Setting Manager and set the Focus Prevention Level option to off. The option is found under General Options on the tab named Focus & Raise Behaviour.

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  • today's upgrade seems to have fixed it.
    – Alex Burdusel
    Apr 30, 2014 at 18:38
  • Hi, the proposed answer is not what I expected. I want to have focus prevention and have my calculator app to gain focus when launched from keyboard. Is that possible?
    – razor7
    May 8, 2014 at 22:39
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    Well, I my particular case, If I create a custom shortcut using the calculator button on my keyboard, the calculator app doesn't show at all...
    – razor7
    May 9, 2014 at 2:22
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    The alternative solution (using CompizConfig) resolved the problem for me, as by adding a custom shortcut, the application did open on top of other apps, but didn't receive focus and thus still didn't receive immediate input.
    – Paul Lammertsma
    Aug 26, 2014 at 14:44
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    After creating your own keyboard shortcut make sure to logout. When you log back in the shortcut will start working.
    – hansgoed
    Aug 29, 2014 at 13:01

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