change which program user is looking at

[Denny]

On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 15:36 +0100, Dominic Thoreau wrote:
> I'd be happy, in Windows (probably in other OSes as
> well, but it seems to happen mostly in Windows for me) that I could
> stop other applications bringing themselves to the front.

Linux has definitely got quite naughty about this lately.  I don't
remember it being a problem at all a few years ago, but it's happened to
me quite a lot recently.  I suspect the hate should be aimed at GNOME in
my case, but I'm not sure.