How to automatically bring an activated window to the foreground?

Question

When I have a file browser and an image viewer opened and I double click a photo, the image viewer doesn't jump to the foreground, its icon just shakes a bit and acquires a glow around it, and I have to manually click on it to actually see the photo. How could I make it automatic, so that a double click on a photo shows it immediately, even when the image viewer is already opened in the background?

Solution

This behaviour can be changed from the command line, open a terminal and type:

dconf write /org/compiz/profiles/unity/plugins/core/focus-prevention-level 0

To restore the default value:

dconf write /org/compiz/profiles/unity/plugins/core/focus-prevention-level 1

Comments

[user157697]

hi, strange, in my ubuntu 14.04 there is no setting "focus-prevention-level" at this place :-| , any ideas ?

[wjandrea]

@user157697, you should be able to find the setting via CCSM. See this answer.

[jdc]

Thank you so much for this. The default behavior was wildly irritating to me.

[tigerjack]

Worked for me on 14.04