[plug] Pushy new OpenOffice

[W.Kenworthy]

doesn't work, it pops up wherever the focus is ...

I am using gnome and its something that came in with OO-2 - very
annoying!

BillK

On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 22:39 +0800, Jim Householder wrote:
> 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!"
...
> >>
> >> 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
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