From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040619 Description of problem: I noticed a change this week such that when opening up more than one gnome-terminal session, the second one does not receive focus so that when the first is running full screen the second is never seen unless you manually switch to it by clicking in the bottom panel icon or via Alt-Tab. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-terminal-2.4.0.1-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open up gnome-terminal 2. Set it to full screen 3. Open up second gnome-terminal Actual Results: Second session does not appear, but bottom panel shows it's been started. Expected Results: Second terminal should overlay the first and have the focus. Additional info:
This leads the user to think that the new gnome-terminal failed to launch. I noticed the problem today. Also, windows seem to stay visible and focused unless the window is clicked w/ the mouse. Example: Mozilla running full screen. Gnome-terminal brought to front by clicking on the panel button. Clicking on the fullscreen mozilla does not fully change focus to mozilla. gnome-terminal is still present and hides part of the mozilla window. This might be a useful feature, but seems odd behavior. If you click on the gnome-terminal window, then click again on the full screen window, gnome-terminal is hid and mozilla is fully focused w/o gnome-terminal hiding parts of the browser.
This is http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149028, it will be resolved in some way upstream by GNOME 2.8