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Scenario:

  1. Open a program that is starting slowly
  2. Not wait for it to open, and switch to other window/task. For e.g. selecting some files in a directory to delete
  3. While I am working focused on other task (selecting files) that program, after a few seconds, opens and covers everything

The desired behavior:

Do not open on top of all windows and distract me while I am working on other task, instead display a notification in side panel so I will open that window when I'll want (when I'll finish my current task)

launcher with highlighted icon

What happens instead:

That program doesn't care what I am doing at the moment, it just opens rude in my face and covers everything.

This looks like a very minor problem, but it happens to me almost every day and already started to annoy me.

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You can achieve that with gdevilspie

configuration screenshot

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  • This is not what I was looking for and it's useless. Instead of being opened in background and to appear active in sidebar http://i.stack.imgur.com/ozJ27.png here's what happens: I click to open PhpStorm, then I switch to terminal and work there, then PhpStorm is fast: opened -> focused -> minimized, and the focus from terminal is lost, and I have to click on terminal icon to get focus and continue writing, this is the same what I was doing before installing gdevilspie. It will be cool to have an option/checkbox in Ubuntu System Settings "Start programs in background" – moldcraft Aug 04 '15 at 08:25