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I have 2 questions related to launching applications Ubuntu 20.04.

  1. When opening system applications like gnome-terminal, if another application or window is focused then the opening window is opened in the background with a notification about it. But if a non-system application like a web browser or code-editor like vscode is opened like this, then it opens in the foreground and thus disturbing the workflow. Can I change this behaviour of applications?

  2. If I switch to a new workspace and quickly open an application and switch back to the previous workspace before the application window opens, then the application window opens in whichever workspace I am currently in, instead of opening in the workspace where it was called. Is this a bug or this kind of feature is not implemented yet?

Nmath
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    I don't know about the 1st one but 2nd one is a bug that is really irritating, It is not in Ubuntu 21.10 BTW. – Error404 Oct 24 '21 at 03:35
  • @AkshajSingla glad to hear that, but is there any extension or something to prevent this in Ubuntu 20.04? – Parag Katoch Oct 24 '21 at 03:37
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    Extensions are not created to fix bugs. Devs need to know about bugs so they can fix them. Please file a bug report – Nmath Oct 24 '21 at 03:45
  • When you discover an application that hijacks focus, that's usually also a bug. – user535733 Oct 24 '21 at 04:17
  • Better to ask one question at one time here. 2) also happens on 21.10. A window is created on the current workspace. 1) indeed is inconsistent and inpredictable. There is an extension no-annoyance to always launch and get focus, but not the other way round. There is unfortunately on the Linux desktop no control on how to launch an application (e.g. minimized). – vanadium Oct 24 '21 at 16:04
  • okay, so the only way is bug reporting which will hopefully fix these things in the upcoming 22.04. thanks, @vanadium user535733 and Nmath – Parag Katoch Oct 25 '21 at 02:23
  • there are bug reports on both of these issues https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/962471 and https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/455241, but the 2nd bug report is really old – Parag Katoch Oct 25 '21 at 02:46

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