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Ubuntu 20.04. Until recently I had following behaviour:

  • press Ctrl+Alt+T -> new window with Gnome Terminal appears, gets focus, I can directly start typing commands...

Since recently this behaviour changed into:

  • press Ctrl+Alt+T -> new window with Gnome Terminal opens in the background, a notification is displayed, when I click the notification or switch in an other way to the window, I can start using the terminal

This change concerns also other applications, e.g. in Google Chrome, I press Ctrl+N and new window opens in the background, with a notification, instead of going to the foreground directly...

I did not intentionally change it in any settings. Is that a consequence of some upgrade? Anyway I would like to return the behaviour back as it was before. Any idea?

I didn't find any settings that would seem relevant neither in Ubuntu Settings, nor in Gnome Tweaks.

user1182474
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user1182474's answer did not work for me, but going into dconf-editor and changing /org/gnome/desktop/wm/preferences/focus-new-windows from 'strict' to 'smart' did. I liked not having to install an extension.

sjwo
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For 22.04 I managed to fix this:

  1. with the extension linked above https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/234/steal-my-focus/
  2. following the workaround listed as a comment (which basically edits the metadata to support the current version).
  3. To restart gnome I had to log out the current user (instead of the mentioned Alt+F2 > r)

Here are the modified steps:

  1. Temporary disable or remove the GNOME shell integration from your browser
  2. Reload the page and download .zip by clicking Download > 3.20 > 4
  3. unzip ~/Downloads/steal-my-focus@kagesenshi.org.v4.shell-extension.zip -d ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/steal-my-focus@kagesenshi.org && sed -i 's/"3.20"/"3.20","40","41","42"/' ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/steal-my-focus@kagesenshi.org/metadata.json
  4. Logout the current user and log back in (previously: alt+f2 > r)
  5. gnome-extensions enable steal-my-focus@kagesenshi.org
Cilvic
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There are Gnome shell extension that can solve this super-annoying behaviour. See https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2020/12/quick-tip-remove-window-is-ready-notification-focus-window-immediately/

Bachi
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