Hi all,
One of the major annoyances I had with MS Windoze was the habit of programs to force themselves into the foreground.
I would have some long running task running in the background, or will have started a "slow to fire up" program, meanwhile I continue working on "the task in hand" with the program in the foreground. When I looked at the screen I see the background task has popped up and forced itself into the foreground and the last half dozen sentences I had typed had been lost to it.
I have noticed that this is also becoming more common with linux (unbutu 10.04) and was wondering if this behaviour is a part of the programs themselves or if there is a system wide setting that will stop it.
That is, I want to be able to specify that the foreground task I am using does not lose focus unless I tell it to.
Anybody out there have more in depth knowledge of this sort of thing?
Nev