oh, I reported a similar bug a few days ago, marked that duplicate and gave the status to this bug. thanks.
** Changed in: unity Assignee: (unassigned) => Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) ** Changed in: unity Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: unity Status: Incomplete => Triaged ** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Triaged ** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) ** Description changed: + Make sure you follow the exact steps + + 1. start gnome-terminal + 2. now start nautilus + + What happens + nautilus window does not get focused as the menubar still shows menus of the terminal + + What should happen + nautilus should be focused. + + =====Original Report===== + Binary package hint: unity A new app will open (say Nautilus) and I am in another app (say Terminal). Even though Nautilus jumps to front, the menu bar on top is still from the Terminal. This is confusing and it caused me more than once to turn off the app I was in! ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: unity 3.8.12-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Architecture: i386 CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,imgpng,zoom,commands,mousepoll,place,move,snap,resize,unitymtgrabhandles,staticswitcher,session,regex,gnomecompat,wall,grid,vpswitch,animation,fade,expo,workarounds,scale,unityshell,scalefilter,scaleaddon] Date: Thu May 12 18:10:31 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1) ProcEnviron: - LANGUAGE=en_US:en - LANG=en_US.UTF-8 - SHELL=/bin/bash + LANGUAGE=en_US:en + LANG=en_US.UTF-8 + SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: unity UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-30 (12 days ago) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/781931 Title: New windows steal focus but don't update the menu bar on top To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/781931/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs