[Solved] Program's windows opens in background.

Hi I have weird problem with my arch. When I run firefox, or opera or chrome or whatever, and I want to open another program (like gnome-terminal, avidemux, xmms, smplayer..or whatever) the window of this program opens in background. I have to click the bottom panel to switch to this program. WTF is going on ? The option "always show on top" is not selected.
Last edited by lgolebio (2010-04-22 19:00:32)

Ofcourse, I forget
Sepc: (everything up to date)
Archlinux 32bit
Gnome 2.30.0-1
laptop dell m1530
Last edited by lgolebio (2010-04-22 18:59:25)

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