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[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <mail@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is not a bug in unity, but a compiz feature.

Applications should be fixed in order to properly work with WM, check the bug #627195 for more info.
As workaround you can disable the focus stealing prevention mechanism in compiz (from ccsm).

** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

** Changed in: unity
       Status: New => Won't Fix

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1353003

Title:
  windows of an application spawned from another are not given focus
  when they should

Status in Unity:
  Won't Fix
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  I don't know whether this is supposed to be a new brilliantly designed
  feature which is "working as [wrongly] intended" or if it is just a
  regression, but it is certainly annoying.

  When an application opens up a window of another application, what used to happen (and the correct and expected behavior) was that that window was given focus.
  Now it is not. It is just highlighted in a barely perceptible way in the Launcher.

  Examples:
  - in Thunderbird, click a link in an email => this opens the link in a new tab in the default Browser (Google Chrome in my case). Google Chrome should be given focus but it isn't. Its icon in the Launcher just is highlighted

  - In Google Chrome, download a file. Then, when it appears on the
  bottom, click the down arrow next to it and choose the "show in folder
  option". This opens a new Nautilus windows. This window isn't given
  focus as it should, and again is only slightly highlighted in the
  Launcher.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: unity 7.2.2+14.04.20140714-0ubuntu1.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-32.57-generic 3.13.11.4
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-32-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
  Architecture: amd64
  CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Tue Aug  5 18:37:59 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-11 (297 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
  SourcePackage: unity
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-05-24 (72 days ago)

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