On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 17:04 -0400, Andrew Parker wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 4:33 PM, John Horne <john.horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 13:24 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > >> John Horne wrote: > >> > On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 14:32 -0400, Andrew Parker wrote: > >> >> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 11:45 AM, John Horne <john.horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> >>> Hello, > >> >>> > >> >>> I have noticed with F9, using Evolution mail client, that if a message > >> >>> contains a web URL and I click on it (the URL), Firefox is started up > >> >>> but remains 'minimised' in the taskbar. That is, it doesn't open up and > >> >>> show me the web page until I click on the Firefox icon in the taskbar. > >> >>> > >> >>> Since I clicked on the URL in the mail message, I would have thought it > >> >>> somewhat obvious that I want to look at the web page :-) I could see no > >> >>> options in Evolution or Firefox about this. > >> >>> > >> >>> Anyone else notice this, or have a fix for it? > >> >> Are you sure its minimised and not just underneath Evolution? > >> >> > >> > Not sure what you mean by 'underneath'. How would I tell? > >> > >> Try minimizing Evolution and see if the web page is displayed. If so, > >> then Firefox was open, but its screen was "under" the Evolution screen. > >> > > Ah, I've got you. Okay, yes the web page is underneath Evolution. > > However, if I have no browsers open, and click on a URL in a message, > > then firefox is on top of Evolution. If I click on the URL again, the > > second (or more) browsers are underneath Evolution. So the first browser > > appears on 'top', but all others are underneath. I'm not sure if it is > > possible to tell firefox to always be on top, but even if it is is it > > something that would always be wanted? (Probably yes, if you click on a > > url then it is no doubt to see the web page?) > > I don't think that this is a Firefox/Evolution problem. I *think* > this is a KDE feature designed to stop applications from stealing > focus. e.g. you're busy working away in one window and another window > wants focus. You'd get mighty irritated if that new (or existing) > window stole the focus and you ended up typing in the new window. > This is also potentially dangerous too. > > You could prove this by, say, adding a "sleep 5" as the second line of > the firefox startup script. Then there would be 5 seconds between the > click and Firefox trying to steal focus. KDE should allow that. If > Firefox gets the focus then you can look for a config that would > change this behaviour (and obviously remove the 5 second delay) > Adding a delay made no difference. John. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 E-mail: John.Horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
