bagus

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Firefox jump to other workspace in XFCE

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I haven’t notice when this bug occurs. When I try to click a link in Pidgin (formerly known as Gaim), Firefox window jump to active workspace. Or when I run Firefox which I set to start in workspace 2 with devilspie, it will jump to active workspace too.

After searching the web, I found a solution here. There is a hidden option available in XFCE 4.4.1 called ActivateAction. Following the solution there, I managed to keep Firefox in its workspace. Here is the solution:

Edit ~/.config/xfce4/mcs_settings/wmtweaks.xml
<option name="Xfwm/ActivateAction" type="string" value="none"/>

One more problem solved :)

Written by bagus

January 28, 2008 at 1:26 pm

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  1. Thanks. That solved the problem for me perfectly!

    lex

    February 24, 2008 at 10:08 am

  2. let me know what version of firefox did you use …

    wie

    February 29, 2008 at 6:06 pm

  3. Firefox 2.0.0.11 after upgrade to 2.0.0.12 the workaround still working.

    bagus

    February 29, 2008 at 6:47 pm

  4. Thanks a lot! I am googling for the solution for 3 month.

    d43m0n

    June 7, 2008 at 3:56 pm

  5. value=”none” didn’t work for me, but value=”0″ did work. Maybe it’s obvious to try “0″ if “none” doesn’t work though…

    Anyway thanks :)

    wyrd

    December 24, 2008 at 9:35 pm

  6. For Xfce-4.6 you need

    xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p /general/activate_action -s none
    

    Wicher Minnaard

    May 8, 2009 at 10:39 pm


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