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A feature that was useful to me was the ability to have the active window in background.

For instance, you may want to have a small window in foreground while typing on libreoffice in full screen.

Back in the 90's this was a common feature of CDE or OLWM.

Is there a way to obtain similar behavior in Gnome?

Andrea Gangemi
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If I right click the title bar, I can select "Always On Top". This allows me to have a window remain floating on top of a libre office, or gedit, etc. so I can reference the top, while focus remaining on what I want behind. You may find this thread useful, and there are quite a few other solutions if right clicking does not work for you.

Seek Truth
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XFCE and Gnome will allow you to do so so with the "Always on top" option. It is not "setting the active window to the background", but forcing a window to stay in foreground, even if it has lost its focus.

Gnome has the same feature as described here by right clicking the context menu. This is the result (terminal is on top while working in nautilus):

kanehekili
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