Bug 1403624

Summary:	Terminator windows not focused when started via shortcut in gnome
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer>
Component:	terminator	Assignee:	Dominic Hopf <dmaphy>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	25	CC:	bnater, dmaphy, jheger, mattrose, peter.hutterer, ross.zwisler
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Description Peter Hutterer 2016-12-12 00:59:24 UTC

Description of problem:
I have a keyboard shortcut ctrl+alt+T to start terminator, configured in the gnome keyboard settings panel (under custom shortcuts). Until including 
terminator-0.98-4.fc25.noarch, a terminator window would be in the foreground and focused when started. With the recent update to 1.90-5.fc25.noarch, the windows are all now in the background and need additional an alt-tab switch to be focused.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.90-5.fc25.noarch

How reproducible:
Set up a shortcut to launch terminator or run "sleep 3; terminator &" and quickly switch to another window, like Firefox. Terminator will launch in the background.

Additional info:
gnome-terminal doesn't have this issue so if it is to do with the focus-stealing-prevention there seems to be a way to avoid it.

Comment 1 Jakub Heger 2016-12-14 09:24:17 UTC

I experience the same issue as Peter + I noticed different odd behaviour.

When I have open terminator on one workspace and I try to open different instance of terminator on second workspace the active workspace is switched to the one with terminator already running and when I go back to the workspace I've tried to open new terminator from there is new shell.

Comment 2 Jakub Heger 2017-02-15 11:37:13 UTC

There is a number of workarounds according to https://bugs.launchpad.net/terminator/+bug/1508531

1) adding this:

[global_config]
  dbus = False

to your config file (~/.config/terminator/config)

2) Adding -u option to your shortcut launcher (this may apparently increase resource consumption)

3) Downgrading to version 0.98

I've tried 1 and 2 and both seem to work.

Comment 3 Dominic Hopf 2017-03-19 14:01:45 UTC

Can you confirm this issue has been fixed with the latest update to 1.91?

Comment 4 Dominic Hopf 2017-03-19 14:05:04 UTC

*** Bug 1426336 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Peter Hutterer 2017-03-20 00:23:09 UTC

yep, fixed in terminator-1.91-2.fc25.noarch, thanks