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gnome-shell package

  1. Bug #1993940
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 1993940

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote : Re: applications start in the background instead of the foreground

This problem sounds related to focus stealing prevention. That's the feature intended to put new windows in the background when the system thinks you're still busy in the foreground.

However, since you're using a 4-year old release I would first recommend trying the latest long term release (22.04.1):

  https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop

because this bug is likely to have been fixed already.