Ubuntu – How to disable Raise-on-Click in Trusty

14.04gnomeunitywindow-manager

When a windowed app has focus and I click a maximized app below it, I'd like to set focus to the maximized window but for the windowed app to remain in the foreground.

I recently upgraded (by means of a fresh install) from Precise to Trusty.
For a number of years my workflow has relied on "Raise-on-Click" being disabled. I like to be able to copy text from a maximized browser to a text editor or an IDE in a window on top of the browser.

In 14.04, disabling that setting has no effect.

I am used to do it via compizconfig-settings-manager, which is what I did:

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I also verified the setting having changed in dconf-editor:
Under org > gnome > desktop > wm > preferences

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Even though it should take effect immediately, I did reboot just to be on the safe side before asking here.

How do I restore my workflow?

Edit: If this is not a global issue…

… let me reformulate the question:
What setting (in CCSM, unity-tweak-tool, dconf-editor) could possibly be overriding the above?

Best Answer

First check current state of raise-om-click option using gsettings by the command below:

gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences raise-on-click

The result would be true if you didn't disable it before.

Then if it was "true" then you can disable it by the command below:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences raise-on-click false

or If it returned "false" and still you don't get your desired effect then it sounds something is wrong or missing on your system.

From all apps that is from below setting:

org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences raise-on-click

Also you can type dconf watch / in Terminal and check the any changes from your settings.

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