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[Eric Lambart <1339714@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I learned from here:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/457857/ubuntu-14-04-calculator-does-not-get-focus-when-opened-from-keyboard-shortcut

...that the problem seems to only occur with Unity's built-in
"Launchers" (System Settings->Keyboard->Shortcuts->Launchers).

Following the suggested answer on AU, I disabled my key-combo for the
"Launch calculator" shortcut, and added a Custom Shortcut to gnome-
calculator. Now it works as expected!

What's odd is that the "Launch terminal" built-in Launcher (mapped to
Super+T) works fine. It always comes to the foreground and is focused.

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Title:
  Application windows do not become active when started via keyboard
  shortcuts

Status in Unity:
  New
Status in unity package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I used to start Gnome-calculator and Thunderbird via my keyboard short
  cuts. This used to work very well andd handy, for my keyboard has some
  extra keys for those purposes.

  Now I can still start the desired applications, but I have to do an
  extra click (or alt-tab) on their window to get them active. This ist
  particularly annoying and unhandy for the calculator. I tested this
  contra-productive behaviour on thunderbird and on gnome-calculator.

  This bug seems to have occured about May 2014, and is active in 14.04
  (my desktop computer) and 13.10 (my laptop computer).

  I consider this a very small bug, and so i hope this is really easy to
  fix.

  Thank you in advance, Michael

  Ubuntu 14.04 AMD 64 Bit

  michael@desktop-pc:~$ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
  Release:	14.04
  michael@desktop-pc:~$ apt-cache policy unity
  unity:
    Installiert:           7.2.0+14.04.20140423-0ubuntu1.2
    Installationskandidat: 7.2.1+14.04.20140513-0ubuntu2
    Versionstabelle:
       7.2.1+14.04.20140513-0ubuntu2 0
          500 http://at.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
   *** 7.2.0+14.04.20140423-0ubuntu1.2 0
          500 http://at.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       7.2.0+14.04.20140416-0ubuntu1 0
          500 http://at.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: unity 7.2.0+14.04.20140423-0ubuntu1.2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-30.55-generic 3.13.11.2
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-30-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,snap,grid,place,imgpng,vpswitch,resize,gnomecompat,mousepoll,move,session,regex,unitymtgrabhandles,animation,wall,fade,expo,scale,ezoom,workarounds,unityshell]
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Wed Jul  9 15:19:58 2014
  SourcePackage: unity
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-29 (71 days ago)

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