On Ubunto Focal Fossa 20.4, for most of the apps, for example by searching for VeraCrypt and pressing Enter, Ubuntu displays a notification at the top of my screen which says something like "VeraCrypt is ready". I have to click on this notification so that the app I wanted to open comes to the foreground. Is there a way to change this default behavior?
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1The notification replaces an older behavior. That older behavior, commonly called "window-stealing,' was a common source of user confusion and complaints. – user535733 Oct 23 '20 at 12:35
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3@user535733 Why didn't Ubuntu just change that behavior by only allowing applications that were manually opened by the user to be focused? – Thomas Oct 23 '20 at 19:58
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2Ubuntu did not change the behavior. Gnome did. Feel free to ask the Gnome developers (whom we are not). – user535733 Oct 23 '20 at 20:57
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Does this answer your question? Gnome Shell: Move windows to front on launch (No more "... is ready to use" notifications) – Flimm Nov 04 '23 at 07:19
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Windows is Ready - Notification Remover <-- only removes notification, does not focus the open window
Focus my window <-- incompatible
Here, this works best on Ubuntu 22.04
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/5410/grand-theft-focus/
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Grand Theft Focus worked for me. I didn't test the others because of this answer. I used the NoAnnoyance extension initially but it didn't seem to work on 22.04. – Rafael Eyng Jan 01 '23 at 22:34
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This is more maintained than "Focus my window" ("Focus my window" does not work is 43). – Ahmad Ismail Aug 12 '23 at 18:36
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sudo apt-get install chrome-gnome-shell. 2. open https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/5410/grand-theft-focus/ , and install the chrome extension if not yet. 3. clickinstallon the site, then it should work. (it worked on my ubuntu 22.04.3)
