Window displayed is not always the active window
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Window displayed is not always the active window
Not sure where to start with this. I use LM 18.1, MATE on my main system. Now, I don't know if this is a problem specific to MATE; or whether it has been fixed in 18.2. Anyways, to describe the problem I experience... I often have several windows up all at once, on multiple desktops. In this example, let's say I have terminal, pluma, virtualbox, and firefox all open on desktop 1. I switch to desktop 2 for a while, then go back to desktop 1. Now it may show the terminal window on top of all the others, but it is not the actual active window; when I type the text may actually be going into pluma. So, no big deal, I click and minimize pluma. It still shows the terminal window on top, but this time firefox is the active window. If i try to click the minimize button on the terminal window, it actually clicks on that location in firefox behind it. I have to make terminal the active window (alt-tab, or click it in the panel) then minimize it in order to see the contents of the real active window. Any thoughts? I hope I am not alone in experiencing this, and there's a simple fix. Again, I don't know whether it has to do with switching desktops, or what exactly causes it.
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Re: Window displayed is not always the active window
So you're saying that clicking on the terminal windows does not make it the active window?
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Re: Window displayed is not always the active window
Exactly. I probably didn't describe it well. It's like it draws the terminal window on top, but it's not really on top, some other window is.Reljoy wrote:So you're saying that clicking on the terminal windows does not make it the active window?
Re: Window displayed is not always the active window
Sounds like this bug. It's fixed by now in Marco 1.16.1 and 1.18.1.
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Re: Window displayed is not always the active window
Yeah it does sound like that ... I've moved to XFCE in the meantime