[plug] Pushy new OpenOffice

[John Knight]

Not sure what WM you're using, but in KDE, just right click on the window 
you wanna keep open, and select Advanced -> Keep Above Others. Most WMs 
should have something similar.

"...it was brilliant, there was three up against a thousand, and boy, did we 
give those three heaps!"


>
>On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 19:15 +0800, Jason Posavec wrote:
> > Back when I had OpenOffice 1.something I had a routine of
> > double-clicking my budget spreadsheet, then opening my internet banking
> > website and logging in while OO politely opened my spreadsheet in the
> > background. By the time I'd logged into my bank account, my budget had
> > opened and was ready to use.
> >
> > Now with OO 2.0, the spreadsheet keeps opening over the top of what I'm
> > doing. I normally have to minimise it 2 or even 3 times while I'm trying
> > to enter my details into the website.
> >
> > Is there any setting in OO that tells it to open files in the background
> > like the old version politely did? I've looked everywhere in the
> > settings, but can't seem to find anything.
> >
> > Jason
>
>Is the problem unique to OOo?  My thinking is that even if it appears to
>be so, that it must be controllable by your window manager settings and
>how you allocate focus to your applications.  Try changing the window
>focus settings to something that doesn't allow a completed task or
>opening app to steal focus.  HTH
>
>Gavin
>
>
>
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