SilverNodashi
Expert Member
Hi all,
I hope someone can help me with this.
Windows 7 (I think others did this as well) has this nasty habbit of automatically switching the active window to another one which recently became active.
I often do a lot of multi-tasking and more than once have I pressed the wrong button in the wrong window which lead to problems.
For example, I would open up 5 web browsers and load 5 different websites in them, of which 2 would be an SQL browser (phpmyadmin or mylittleadmin for example), the other 2 would be a SugarCRM with a client's project and the last one would be google or whatever. This is something that happened this morning:
window1 had client1's SQL stuff, window2 had client1's Project in SugarCRM, window3 had client1's Website, window4 had client2's SQL stuff and window5 has client2's SugarCRM project and window6 had client2's PHP code (online code editor for small changes).
So, now I go through each window (ALT+SHIFT+TAB) and then let the window start doing stuff (SQL queries which takes some time), so I then switch to the next window in the sequence to start doing stuff there. Then the SQL query finishes and what window becomes the active window. The issue is that I was busy doing some PHP coding and wipped the whole SQL output.
This doesn't only happen with web browsers (IE, FF & Chrome), but also with other applications like Quickbooks (which becomes active after doing a 5minute backup), Photoshop (after doing batch conversion), etc.
Does anyone know what this is, or how / where to disable it?
I've done some google searching the closest I could get is to enable "Activate a window by hovering over it with the mouse", in "Ease of use Center" > "Make the mouse easier to use" control panel. But I don't even have a mouse for my laptop, I only use the keyboard.
So I'm not 100% sure what this action is referred to, but the closest I could get was "Preventing active window from switching automaticly" which descibed the problem, but without an answer.
This same behaviour doesn't happen on CentOS + KDE though.
I hope someone can help me with this.
Windows 7 (I think others did this as well) has this nasty habbit of automatically switching the active window to another one which recently became active.
I often do a lot of multi-tasking and more than once have I pressed the wrong button in the wrong window which lead to problems.
For example, I would open up 5 web browsers and load 5 different websites in them, of which 2 would be an SQL browser (phpmyadmin or mylittleadmin for example), the other 2 would be a SugarCRM with a client's project and the last one would be google or whatever. This is something that happened this morning:
window1 had client1's SQL stuff, window2 had client1's Project in SugarCRM, window3 had client1's Website, window4 had client2's SQL stuff and window5 has client2's SugarCRM project and window6 had client2's PHP code (online code editor for small changes).
So, now I go through each window (ALT+SHIFT+TAB) and then let the window start doing stuff (SQL queries which takes some time), so I then switch to the next window in the sequence to start doing stuff there. Then the SQL query finishes and what window becomes the active window. The issue is that I was busy doing some PHP coding and wipped the whole SQL output.
This doesn't only happen with web browsers (IE, FF & Chrome), but also with other applications like Quickbooks (which becomes active after doing a 5minute backup), Photoshop (after doing batch conversion), etc.
Does anyone know what this is, or how / where to disable it?
I've done some google searching the closest I could get is to enable "Activate a window by hovering over it with the mouse", in "Ease of use Center" > "Make the mouse easier to use" control panel. But I don't even have a mouse for my laptop, I only use the keyboard.
So I'm not 100% sure what this action is referred to, but the closest I could get was "Preventing active window from switching automaticly" which descibed the problem, but without an answer.
This same behaviour doesn't happen on CentOS + KDE though.