Second window doesn't appear in forground

[Valentin Crone]

Hello,
Open nautilus, double-click on a picture.
Click on the nautilus window, or reduce the eog window (don't close)
Open an other picture: The second eog window open but it is reduced in the dash of Unity.

It's the same thing for all other window you open if an other window of eog is opened, and it's angry.

Can you fix this bug?

Thank you :)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Lonnie Lee Best (launchpad-startport)]

Yeah, I've been experiencing this bug for a long time, and still am in Ubuntu 14.04.

I just noticed Valentin Crone's report, after creating this duplicate:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eog/+bug/1410993

[Valentin Crone (va-crone)]

Hello,
Just to add this remark:
This bug affect eog, file-roller, and others specifics software like that when you start more than one instance.
It's possible that the bug is not in eog especially but in a shared lib used by theses programs.

[Lonnie Lee Best (launchpad-startport)]

Yeah, I've noticed this in file-roller too. Maybe they do share the same library and it is that library that is flawed in this regard.

[Lonnie Lee Best (launchpad-startport)]

The eog image viewer that comes with Ubuntu 14.04 works fine if you double-click on ONE image from a file browsers.

However, if you navigate to another folder and then double-click on another image, eog doesn't gain focus like you'd expect, and it stays minimized on the Unity launcher bar.

Anytime you double-click on an picture-image-file (jpg, gif, png, etc.), EOG should gain focus and its window should come to the front of the window stack. Currently if the program is already open, it doesn't handle new launchings very well.

I think it should either launch multiple instance when you doube-click on a picture in a different folder, or it should focus and display the last picture you double-click on from the file-browser.