Which new window steals your focus? Metacity has a focus stealing prevention mechanism, for example new chat windows will not open in the front. So I thought that dialogs are the only ones that still cause an error.
-- Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground https://launchpad.net/bugs/67476 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs