[ale] Unity focus problem, following link in email

[PairOfTwins]

JD:

Yup, I don't use Unity myself, but for an 87 year old, I thought just 
clicking on an icon and having the apps appear one at a time would be 
easy.  Actually it only took her a couple days to stop longing for Win XP.

Can't find an "always-on-top" setting in Unity, but when I click on any 
launcher except the browser, that comes up, and then the browser will 
come up when I click its launcher!

Created another user but he has no emails to click on, and anyway --- I 
saw 3 "system program problem detected" messages come up, referring to 
NetworkManager, polkitd, and nautilus.  I offered to replace 12.04 with 
13.10 and have a fresh start.  ( SMART says hard drive is fine, and I 
check the filesystem for errors)

Thanks for your input, but I'm out of patience with an out of date 
system :-)

Tom
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On 12/18/2013 06:30 PM, JD wrote:
> No idea, but I would have swapped out Unity for ... er ... anything else.
>
> Don't have that issue with LXDE here. Just tested it. My focus is set to "follow
> mouse."  I suppose you've checked the settings for "always on top" in firefox
> and thunderbird and whatever Unity uses to manage that?  I know there is a
> setting _somewhere_ so windows do not get pulled up unless focus is specifically
> requested. sorry, don't know where that is.
>
> Also - which version of Ubuntu?  12.04.4 or something else?
>
> Might be time to move the ~/.mozilla/ directory somewhere else temporarily and
> see if the problem persists too.
>
> Or create a new userid and try it there. That should determine if this is a
> user-config issue for 1 userid or a system-wide issue.
>
> On 12/18/2013 03:45 PM, PairOfTwins wrote:
>> All:
>>
>> Lots of searching and still scratching my head.
>>
>> I've got an 87 year old running Ubuntu 12.04 for over a year now :-)  It's fully
>> updated.
>>
>> Lately it developed this problem - she clicks on a link in an email, and nothing
>> seems to happen.  ACTUALLY Firefox loads the page but doesn't bring it to the
>> front.  Even when I click on the Firefox launcher, it STILL doesn't come to the
>> front.  BUT if I click on Home Folder, THEN on Firefox, it comes to the front!
>>
>> BTW if I make Chrome the default browser, it acts the same.  If the browser is
>> not running, the browser comes to the front and displays the page.  If the
>> browser is already running, it loads the page but my 87-year old doesn't know it.
>>
>> Clues?
>>
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