Questions tagged [focus]
In a windowed GUI, the window that is currently active is said to have "focus"
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New windows don't come to front and focus after upgrade 24.04
In my previous setup, when a new application was started, or an existing application opened a dialog, the new window would come to the front and receive focus.
After upgrading to 24.04, this is no ...
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Viber taking focus when new message is recieved
Whenever I receive a message on Viber, it takes focus - maximizes over any app that I'm currently using. If I'm typing something in another app, suddenly Viber pops up and I'm typing in the message ...
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How to never raise a window even in focus?
Hey Everyone I would like to know how one could set a specific window to to the opposite of "always on top", basically make the window never raise even when in focus.
I'm daily driving on ...
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Minimize a focused window by clicking the panel/dock icon a second time?
In Ubuntu 24.04 I have icons for my open windows, along with a few shortcuts, in the panel/dock. If I click one that's minimized it will open in the foreground. Clicking the icon a second time with ...
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Issue with Unresponsive Apps on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Noble Numbat
I recently installed Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Noble Numbat on my new ThinkPad E16 machine, and I've been encountering a frustrating issue with certain applications becoming unresponsive and losing focus. This ...
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How to prevent Firefox from bringing all of its windows to the foreground when clicking only one window?
Ubuntu 22.04.
Firefox 122.0.1
I am observing the following behavior.
If I have multiple Firefox windows and I click on one of them, all the Firefox windows that are not minimized are brought to the ...
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Yakuake window is not auto-focused after upgrading to 22.04
I was using Ubuntu 20.04 with Yakuake dropdown terminal. The terminal opens using a keyboard shortcut, e.g. F12. On my old system, the focus was set automatically on the terminal window, so I could ...
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Gnome system control window not grab focus
The version of my Ubuntu is 22.04 and the GNOME is gnome-42-2204.
I press 'Ctrl+Alt+Tab' to switch system controls, then I choose 'DASH' or 'Top Bar', and they are highlighted
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Keyboard focus goes always to windows with "always on top"
After installing Ubuntu 22.04, I noticed this very annoying bug:
If a windows has set to "Always on top", when I switch active window with the TAB key, the new windows indeed gets the focus, ...
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Kubuntu X11 focus follows mouse Firefox doesn't play nicely
I started using Unix (Solaris) in the mid '90s and, as a researcher, I found the focus follows mouse without bringing the window I was typing in fantastic for making notes while reading papers.
in the ...
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Some applications are not focused when clicked on their Title Bar
This problem started after upgrade from Ubuntu 22.10 to 23.04.
For example, open gnome-terminal (Terminal) and usb-creator-gtk (Startup Disk Creator). Partially overlap these two windows and allow the ...
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How to set focus follows mouse in 22.10?
I've just noticed that it seems to be not working. It used to be a gnome-tweaks thing. What is the correct way to do this now?
I see some comment about "sloppy" but not where it is found.
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prevent updates window from appearing in front of the other open windows
I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 (I can't upgrade to the next version).
How to prevent the "available updates window" from appearing in front of other opened windows?
I would like it to open minimized ...
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Windows lose focus and appear behind desktop icons
On one of my machines I have a problem where the active windows lose focus and appear behind the desktop icons. Cf. screenshots.
After playing with Alt-tab it's possible to get out of it, but it's not ...
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Gnome New Windows not focused automatically
This started happening for me in Ubuntu 22.10 Whenever I open a new window with a shortcut, for example I use the right ALT to open the terminal, the focus does not go to that newly opened windows, ...
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App to stop distractions
Can someone recommend any app that can be used to help stop distractions and procrastination? I am aware of some applications that exist for writing text which have their own editor window. These ...
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How to configure focus-follows-mouse
Upgraded from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04 yesterday. I like windows to gain focus when the mouse is over the window (focus on hover) and remain there even if your pointer is moved to the desktop. I'm unable ...
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Firefox windows capture clicks on an area larger than its real size on Ubuntu 22.04 [duplicate]
It looks as if Firefox windows are capturing the mouse clicks on an area larger than their window. The extra area expands to approximately the size of the titlebar on the 4 directions (top, bottom, ...
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22.04 Unresponsive mouse-click boundary outside Firefox window borders
On a freshly installed laptop with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (5.15.0-46-generic) and Gnome, I notice a strange behaviour with Firefox (103.0.2).
When it overlaps other windows there's a hidden boundary around ...
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How can the Firefox file-save dialog be set to use the Enter key to save in GNOME Shell 42.2?
In my work I must save hundreds of images using Firefox each day. I require the use of the keyboard for this. The usual task is to right-click an image in a web page, select "v" for "...
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When launching apps the app window is not in foreground
Since installing 22.04, I've noticed that many times (not all), if I launch an app, I receive an informational dialog saying that the app is ready instead of having the app's window being displayed in ...
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Alt-tab focus immediately lost on Wayland with Secondary-Click ('sloppy') window focus if mouse over other window
I've been a fan of the Window Focus mode called "Secondary-Click" (previously "sloppy focus") - available via Gnome Tweaks under the "Windows" tab - which used to work as ...
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After screen shot unable to click on any other window or taskbar
So I have the screen shot (copy screen shot of area to clipboard) set to a hotkey which has been working for a couple weeks but now all of a sudden whenever I take a screenshot I'm unable to click on ...
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How to prevent new windows stealing focus in Lubuntu 20.04 (Ubuntu with LXQT)
I've seen some solutions for this problem (preventing new windows of stealing focus) for Ubuntu with Copmiz, but cannot find anything for Lubuntu 20.04 (which uses Lxqt with openbox, and optionally ...
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Is it possible to stop windows from getting focus in i3 window manager? X11
Is it possible to stop windows (applications) from getting focus?
For example when I launch discord, it steals focus multiple times, while I would like to be able to continue typing in my terminal, ...
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How to make Chrome browser "Save as" dialog to be on focus when opening under Ubuntu 21.04?
I use Ubuntu 21.04 and bumped exactly in the issue that seem to be solved long ago... under 14.04 version. But now it's back. I use Chrome 94.0.4606.61（Official Build）and when open "Save as...&...
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How do I set "focus follows mouse" in Ubuntu-Mate 20.04LTS?
I read several past entries about "focus follows mouse" in these pages, but I could not find an answer that helped me. Many answers are for older versions, and others are for Ubuntu flavors ...
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Netplan - how to bring wifi interface up only?
On Focal ubuntu server, I just want the wifi interface to come up without trying to connect. I take my laptop to several coffee shops so it would not make sense to hard code the values here. Instead, ...
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Set focus to background window
how can i set the focus (for input) to a background window and the foreground windows still lays over it?
I use the regular Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop.
Can remember that this works years ago on fvwm2, but ...
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Suggest any GUI App similar to digital wellbeing or Qualitytime for Ubuntu
I am new to Ubuntu. I want to count the total time spend on each app and on-screen time. Is there a software for the same?
For example Digital Wellbeing and QualityTime.
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How to keep full-screen windows on top when they don't have focus (Xubuntu 20.04)
I have a multi-monitor setup. When I have a window on one-monitor full screen but move focus to a window on a different monitor (I have focus set to follow the mouse) the full screen window goes to ...
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Non-focused windows not responding to mouse clicks
I am encountering a problem wherein, after using Ubuntu 20.04 for awhile, non-focused windows stop responding to mouse clicks (and thus do not gain focus). Furthermore the title bar of even the ...
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How do I remove the glow on plank dock when an app is focused on?
I want to remove this glow on plank anybody know how?
I opened the dock.theme file and the only way i could make it disappear was to make TopPadding=-12 which will just basically make my whole dock ...
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Raise a window in 20.04 by clicking without clicking any of the buttons inside it (disable "click-through")
I would like to configure Ubuntu 20.04 (with Gnome shell) so that if I click a window which does not have focus, that click raises the window and does nothing else; in particular, that click to raise ...
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How to stop focus follows mouse?
Is there a single command to simply disable the "out-of-focus" effect? In Dconf manager I only see different setups for this behavior but none to just disable it.
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STT works less well when another application has focus. How can I improve STT to work as part of the OS?
STT works less well when another application has focus. How can I improve STT to work as part of the OS? My virtual assistant program can do things like move windows around, but it seems to work best ...
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How can I change the focus when I minimize a window?
I use very often the shortcut "alt+tab" to change the focus between windows, however, every time I minimize a window and press "alt+tab" it takes the focus back on the window I've just minimized - and ...
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Gnome Shell - How to prevent an application from starting behind the application in focus?
I'm doing automated testing with Sikuli and it's important that the stuff being tested is visible on the screen. Lately, the apps/windows keep opening in the background, behind whatever is currently ...
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How do you configure such that window focus follows the mouse in 18.04? [duplicate]
How do you configure so that window focus goes to the window under the mouse position? I see only answers relating to arcane versions of Ubuntu. Should you install the gnome tweak tool? is it ...
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When scrolling in App1, then alt-tab to App2, App2 jumps its scoll point in line with App1 scroll, and vice versa
I am on 18.04 and it has only recently started happening.
When mouse scrolling in 1st app (e.g. 1.5 pages of scrolling).
I then change to another app.
As I then go to mouse scroll in the 2nd app, the ...
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GUI issues after upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (possibly related to "Gnome global application menu" extension)
I upgraded to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS last night and am running into some view problems, which have to do with the GUI.
As a background: I tried to twist the panel view, in order to save space (one panel) ...
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Cannot rename files or folders in Nautilus (long time running occuring issue)
When I run Ubuntu 16.04 for a long time (let us say minimum overnight, sitting idle) on my ASUS ROG G752VSK laptop, Nautilus repeatedly run into this funny issue, which is described perfectly here:
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Mouse cursor becomes "trapped" focused on the wrong window
On Ubuntu 18.04, using Cinnamon, with a Logitech Performance MX mouse, the cursor will be focused on the wrong window despite another window being on top of it, in focus. When I try to click in the ...
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No focus on last opened document when opened after a first one
In a recent past, I was using Unity, with Ubuntu 16.04. When I selected and opened a document in Nautilus, the display swap directy to the application corresponding to the document and this ...
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How to stay on same app when closing window
Say I have Firefox and several Document Viewer windows open. When I switch apps to Document Viewer and close the current window I expect the next Document Viewer window to get focus. What instead ...
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Forcing a window to be "always on top"
Working QBitTorrent in Ubuntu.
QBitTorrent can be fully minimised any of all of the time (not the headless/web interface, the normal Gui interface), but i want it so that it remains open at all times....
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How to prevent notifications from grabbing focus in 18.04
I updated from 16.04 LTS to 18.04 last year, and the Gnome notifications are a nuisance. In 16.04 with Unity, notifications would not grab focus, they'd just appear as an overlay in the corner -- you ...
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Foxit Reader doesn't take focus on opening a file in Ubuntu 18.04 [duplicate]
I'm using Foxit Reader as my default pdf reader in Ubuntu 18.04. However, if I open a pdf from file explorer, the pdf will be opened in Foxit Reader in background. I need to manually switch to Foxit ...
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How do I make a newly opened file the active window on GNOME 3?
When I double click a file in Nautilus (e.g. a LibreOffice document) it will open a new window in the background, but Nautilus remains the active window.
Is there a way to open a file and have the ...
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how to automatically center the mouse cursor on new opened windows?
I cant find any option on Unity tweak tool neither compiz for that.
Google only shows info about that feature on WindowsOS.
related but about already opened windows: Automatically move mouse to ...
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