How to skip the "Is ready" notification and directly open apps in Ubuntu 20.04?

Question

On Ubuntu Focal Fossa 20.04, for most of the apps, for example by searching for VeraCrypt and pressing Enter, Ubuntu displays a notification at the top of my screen which says something like "VeraCrypt is ready". I have to click on this notification so that the app I wanted to open comes to the foreground. Is there a way to change this default behavior?

Answer 1

Windows is Ready - Notification Remover <-- only removes notification, does not focus the open window

Focus my window <-- incompatible

Here, this works best on Ubuntu 22.04

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/5410/grand-theft-focus/

Answer 2

There are some Gnome extensions that do exactly that:

• Window Is Ready - Notification Remover
• Steal my focus window

Answer 3

Another solution (tested on Ubuntu 24.04) which I don't see mentioned here is changing a setting using dconf-editor. Install it with: sudo apt install dconf-editor

Open dconf editor and search for /org/gnome/desktop/wm/preferences/focus-new-windows. Uncheck use default value and set it to 'strict' instead of the default 'smart'.