[plug] Pushy new OpenOffice

[Jim Householder]

John Knight wrote:
> 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

Another possibility is to open them in different desktops.

Jim