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Raised window when active on Ubuntu ver 9.10

Asked by urih

Hi,

I have a questions about configuring the windows behavior:

I am interested in having many ( say 3 ) open terminals in which I type commands.

As screen has limited space the windows overlap each other so I arrange them to have their lower parts seen.

when I hover with the mouse on each of windows are - it becomes active - e.g. commands are written to its prompt

the window it self does not get raised -this is the desired behavior.

to achieve this I configure :
system -> Preferences -> windows and check the upper line "Select window when mouse moves over them"

The Problem:
when some line are selected in one window ( by coloring it ) and I paste them on a window which is partially hidden - well the lines are pasted correctly but the window is raised from background !
I would like the windows order to stay as they were.

I worked this way on SUN and SUSE

does someone have a workaround for this?

thanks

Uri

coming from SUN and SUSE where the feture wrked

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Best Lesmana Zimmer (lesmana) said : 		#1

assuming that you are using gnome.

1. start gconf-editor (open terminal and run the command gconf-editor).
2. look for the key /apps/metacity/general/raise_on_click.
3. disable that key. takes effect immediately.

if disabled windows will only raise to foreground when you click on the titlebar.

you can also do that from the command line (replace false with true to enable)
$ gconftool-2 -s -t bool /apps/metacity/general/raise_on_click false

read also http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/2007/11/21/raise-on-click/

maybe you can use something like this instead
http://ubuntuguide.net/multiple-ubuntu-terminals-in-one-window-using-terminator

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urih (uhalperin) said : 		#2

Thanks Lesmana Zimmer, that solved my question.