Firefox 59 often starts behind other windows

atelszewski · 03-18-2018, 10:36 PM

Hi,

Often, when I start Firefox 59, it appears behind other windows instead of appearing as the first window on the stack.

I don't remember having this issue with Firefox 58 and earlier.

I'm on Slackware 14.2, Firefox compiled from -current SlackBuild.
I'm using Xfce+KWin.

Anyone experiencing something similar?
Any known solutions?

Thanks in advance!

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Best regards,
Andrzej Telszewski

BW-userx · 03-19-2018, 06:43 AM

nope, WMaker, 59.0.1 FF Slackwhere 14.2 (not current)

Quote:

KWin (pronounced "kwin" in one word) is the window manager for the KDE Plasma Desktop.

It gives you complete control over your windows, making sure they're not in the way but aid you in your task. It paints the window decoration, the bar on top of every window with (configurable) buttons like close, maximize and minimize. It also handles placing of windows and switching between them.

source:
https://userbase.kde.org/KWin

it just might well be something within your settings you might have to insure that it is telling the new opened window to take focus instead of going into the background.

atelszewski · 03-19-2018, 07:06 AM

Hi,

But it's a single application problem.
Only Firefox exposes this behaviour.

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Andrzej Telszewski

montagdude · 03-19-2018, 07:29 AM

KWin allows you to set window placement on a per-application basis. Is there a chance you might have done that? Right click on the top border of the window and choose "Special Application Settings." (I think. It's been awhile since I used KDE.)

atelszewski · 03-19-2018, 08:36 AM

Hi,

Nope, everything seems to be set to default.

To emphasize the original question, this happens often, but not always.
Sometimes the window is actually placed in front.
I just can't reproduce exactly when.

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Andrzej Telszewski

BW-userx · 03-19-2018, 09:01 AM

sporadic behavior is hard to trouble shoot.

atelszewski · 03-19-2018, 09:34 AM

Hi,

I'm getting somewhere ;-)

This seems to happen when Firefox is launched with kde-open, for example:

Code:

kde-open https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/firefox-59-often-starts-behind-other-windows-4175625830-new/

I'm looking at the source code of kde-open, but it involves a couple of things and I'm not sure if I want to spend the time.

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Andrzej Telszewski

atelszewski · 03-19-2018, 03:06 PM

Hi,

I'm not going to mark this thread as solved yet, but the solution that works for me is
to change http/https protocols handler from kde-open to exo-open.

I have custom app launcher written in Qt/C++, so that's not much of a hassle for me.

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Best regards,
Andrzej Telszewski