Skype window pops up in Cinnamon

[Lukys Lukys]

OS: Linux Mint 12 DE: Cinnamon 1.3.1
Every time someone sends me a message on Skype, the chat window pops up to the front and disrupts whatever I was doing. I would prefer it to signal that a message has been received, and wait for me to click on it, as is usual.

[Marcin Wilk (nicram)]

Same problem here on Fedora 16 with Cinnamon 1.4

$ uname -a
Linux Spitfire 3.2.10-3.fc16.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Mar 15 19:39:46 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ cat /etc/system-release
Fedora release 16 (Verne)

[Alex Zhang (alexzhangh)]

same problem, linux mint

$uname -a

Linux alex-mint 3.0.0-19-generic-pae #33-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 19 20:59:10 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

[Rodrigo Vega (rodrigo-vega-bs-as-arg)]

same issue, ubuntu 12.04

m$ uname -a
Linux asante-xps 3.2.0-24-generic-pae #37-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 25 10:47:59 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

[Matthieu André (matth-andre)]

Same issue and it's really annoying... -_-

Linux 3.2.0-25-generic #40-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 23 20:30:51 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Akos Fabian (fabian-akos)]

This workaround helped be to avoid popup windows:
https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/233

cd /usr/share/cinnamon/js/ui

diff windowAttentionHandler.js.original windowAttentionHandler.js.modified
28c28
< if (!window || window.has_focus() || window.is_skip_taskbar())
---
> if (!window || window.has_focus() || window.is_skip_taskbar() || window.wm_class(skype))

[Oskar Wallgren (oskar.wallgren)]

So this is a known issue and the bug is tracked at the Cinnamon site at github.
https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/233