newly launched apps start unfocused

[Martin Vysny]

For example, pressing the ENTER key on a .png image in Krusader will start the Gnome Image Viewer (if Krusader is so configured), however the focus returns back to the Krusader. Pressing DEL would then delete files in the Krusader; pressing any keys controls the Krusader but since it's obscured by the Image Viewer, it's hard to see what's going on. This is highly confusing to me.

A better solution would be either to start the Image Viewer focused, or to start the Image Viewer in the background, behind krusader (and perhaps flashing the icon in the Unity dock).

I'm not sure whether the bug is in Krusader itself, or in Gnome-Shell (being a window manager), I'm a bit guessing here :)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.32.0+git20190410-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-13.14-generic 5.0.6
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu27
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Apr 29 08:55:02 2019
DisplayManager: gdm3
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.shell' b'command-history' redacted by apport
 b'org.gnome.shell' b'favorite-apps' redacted by apport
 b'org.gnome.shell' b'enabled-extensions' b"['<email address hidden>', 'desktop-icons@csoriano', '<email address hidden>', '<email address hidden>']"
 b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'scaling-factor' b'uint32 1'
 b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'gtk-im-module' b"'gtk-im-context-simple'"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-09-05 (965 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to disco on 2019-03-12 (47 days ago)

[Martin Vysny (vyzivus)]

Definitely Gnome Shell, since starting e.g. "Files" (Nautilus) from the dock starts the Nautilus unfocused, sending any keystrokes to whatever app was active before.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1826176, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.