Disable new windows auto opening in background

Question

Skype contact list, Home folder, etc. How to open them in foreground?

Do these windows always open behind other windows, for you? — Eliah Kagan, Aug 22 '12 at 08:14
Same here with e.g. Skype. It seems to be application dependent: Happens always with Skype, but never with e.g. LibreOffice. So either an application falls into the "background category" (then it is always reproducable) or not (then it always works fine). — Izzy, Oct 09 '12 at 14:58
Btw: for those who think it rarely happens, I just found this thread on UbuntuForums talking about it in detail. Unfortunately without finding a solution -- but exactly the same software affected: Skype, Home folder, plus Tomboy. — Izzy, Oct 09 '12 at 15:22

score 16 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 29 '13 at 00:30

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Me too I suffered from app window shyness. I found how to fix it, though.

That fixed things up for me. Hope it does for you as well.

edited Apr 29 '13 at 00:30

BuZZ-dEE

answered Apr 28 '13 at 22:13

MattBAustinTX

This didn't fix it for me. For example Transmission, or KMahjongg always open behind any other open window. I'm using Unity-2D with 12.04LTS. – mivk Oct 23 '13 at 10:07
Is there a way to do this in 16.04 without installing ccsm? – Insperatus Aug 01 '16 at 03:01
Do we have to restart after doing it? – vineeshvs May 13 '21 at 06:42
Follow what MattBAustinTX suggested, but don't forget to restart (or at least log-out so your desktop environment restarts). – Constantinos Petrakis Apr 28 '23 at 08:57

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 05 '20 at 12:16

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Besids ccsm I have made a made gnome-tweaks reset and a reboot.

Now it works as expected.

answered Sep 05 '20 at 12:16

Alex Szücs

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