Fixing Unity's New Windows Not Coming to the Front on Ubuntu

If you use Firefox in fullscreen as much as I do, you’ve probably hit the same problem I have.

What happens is this: while I’m browsing fullscreen in Firefox, I click some other popup window and it opens underneath Firefox instead of coming to the front. WiFi status, uploading images to Weibo, all sorts of stuff.

And it only happens under Unity. Annoying as hell.

Well, there’s a fix now.

Install and launch compizconfig-settings-manager:

sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager

General Options - Focus & Raise Behaviour - Focus Protection Level

Set it to “Off”

That’s it, done.

Source: Fix For Some Apps Starting Behind Focused Windows In Ubuntu (Compiz)