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Build ID: M20060118-1600 Steps To Reproduce: It is hard to reproduce. More information: Sometimes, the eclipse window jumps to foreground and takes focus. The only reproducible case I found was during startup. There are many others tho. Also sometimes the opposite happens. Eclipse goes back and another window appears in front of it and gets focus. I bug 83263 there is a comment that at least the first problem can be turned off by a preference setting, unfortunately it does not say which setting is that.
Eclipse will bring the launch dialog to the front and then the OS will open the window on the top (this is standard behaviour). Could you please give us some idea of when it comes to the front and you don't expect it to?
details about startup : - "Workspace Launcher" - appears on always top of all windows. This is not standard behavior. This is the program explicitly requesting from OS to put its windows on the top : -- it jumps into the foreground -- it does not steal focus - the loading progress bar appears : -- it jumps into the foreground -- it steals focus - the main window appears : -- it jumps into the foreground -- it steals focus - indexing error dialog appears on the workbench, again bringing the window to front : -- it jumps into the foreground -- it steals focus The first one is obviously an eclipse implementation thing and not an OS default behavior. The other three are also eclipse specific. Other applications do not behave like this. Additionally, eclipse steals focus during work. It is very "random" and hard to tell when it happens or how to reproduce. But I believe the root of the problem is common and can be solved by concentrating on the above issues, which are easily reproducible.
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