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[Oliver Weise <ow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You are right regarding the WM. The compiz settings manager, section
"general options", tab "Focus & Raise Behaviour" has a setting "Focus
Stealing Prevention" which....well prevents windows from "stealing
focus".

By default it says "any", so it prevents all windows from stealing
focus. I now extended it like that:

(any) & !(class=Cairo-dock)

And voila! Now the terminal applet correctly gains focus when called. I
cannot yet say if this has some other side effects (I would have liked
to more specificly exclude the terminal applet rather than the whole
cairo-dock application, but didn't know how) but right now I consider
this problem solved. Sorry for the confusion!

Great, so now finally I have a powerful replacement for tilda dropdown
console, which became impractical with my current dual screen setup.

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Terminal applet shortkey behaviour
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/537943
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Status in Cairo-Dock : Plug-ins: In Progress

Bug description:
The cairo dock terminal applet with it's shortkey function would be really a great way to instantly bring up a terminal if those two issues would be addressed:

- When activated via shortkey the terminal does not take input focus. So I still have to click into the terminal window to actually type commands.

- Sometimes, at yet mostly undeterminable situations, the shortkey does not work. This f.e. is the case right after cairo dock was started. Then, when I click the applet icon once, the shortkey works, at least for some time. (Sorry for not being able to narrow it down further)

My version information:
Latest Cairo Dock in OpenGL mode 2.1.3-7 on Ubuntu 9.10 64Bit, Gnome/Compiz