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    • IKuyanov
      IKuyanov @gmiazga last edited by IKuyanov

      @gmiazga Sorry for long answer.
      GNOME Shell 3.36.9
      I figured out thet opera moves on top, if it go to the focused. I use settings when window the focused when hovewered of the pointer. If I turn it off, the problem dissapears

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      • AgLupus
        AgLupus last edited by

        Any update on this? It's getting very annoying.

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        • Aplus
          Aplus last edited by

          Having same issue on 2 machines both with Opera 79.0.4143.50 (issue started after upgrade)
          1 - Manjaro 21.1.4 with Cinnamon 5.05
          2 - Manjaro 21.1.4 with Gnome 40.5

          Settings for "Window focus mode" = mouse or sloppy makes opera raise to top. (not other options enabled)

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          • Aplus
            Aplus @Aplus last edited by

            @aplus Still happening on 79.0.4143.72

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            • AgLupus
              AgLupus last edited by

              just upgraded to 80.0.4170.40. still happening.
              Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
              Gnome 3.36.8
              X.org 7.7
              Window focus set to "focus on hover"
              Raise windows when focused set to "off"

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              • schmidto
                schmidto last edited by

                I have the same problem, Fedora 34, x86_64, XFCE, Opera 80.0.4170.16
                Also: window focus is "focus on hover"; raise windows when focused set to "off"
                And Opera pops up whenever the mouse hovers on it, very annoying.

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                • morckx
                  morckx last edited by

                  Same issue on Fedora 35 with Gnome 41.0 and Opera 82.0.4218.0. Indeed very annoying.

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                  • alxobr
                    alxobr @gmiazga last edited by alxobr

                    @gmiazga Same issue here using IceWM on Debian 10. Opera Version:80.0.4170.72 Linux is stealing focus from non maximized windows just above it (happened with emacs, xterm and urxvt). I don’t need to use the mouse for this to happen, not even to type in the terminal or editor window.

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                    • alxobr
                      alxobr @morckx last edited by

                      @morckx I noticed it also happens with maximized windows.

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                      • mwillson
                        mwillson last edited by

                        Same problem. Just rolling over a tiny portion of the mostly hidden window pops the whole thing to the foreground. Makes it completely useless to have anything but active or minimized. Used to be that clicking anywhere brought it forward, also not desirable, but tolerable.

                        I blame gnome/gtk for forcing every app to be their own window manager. Now every desktop app looks different and behaves in random ways instead of how I set my window manager. Chrome has started doing this too for some of it's sub-windows. Pretty soon it will be the whole browser.

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                        • paulc
                          paulc last edited by

                          xfce and opera 80.0.4170.72
                          This is really annoying. I have auto-raise on hover de-selected. No other programs do this. When opera pops up a window and you overshoot the scrollbar a and drift into the main window, the popup gets buried under the main window. Not cool opera. Not cool.
                          Clearly this is a deliberate choice and has been an issue for over a month.

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                          • morckx
                            morckx last edited by

                            Still not fixed in 82.0.4226.0, sigh.

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                            • paulc
                              paulc @morckx last edited by

                              @morckx Bummer!
                              I am considering two options. Rolling back to a version before this bug was added and just moving totally to vivaldi. The second option is looking better if it also salves the loosing tabs on restart issue and/or losing the ability to display Japanese (on any asian character set) after running for a while.

                              What was the last version where this auto-raise was not present?

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                              • jamesisin
                                jamesisin last edited by

                                I have confirmed this is true across several versions of Ubuntu (16,04, 18.04, and 20.04 plus the studio Ubuntu 20.04). It's a giant pain in the ass. Ridiculous this hasn't been addressed over several version releases of Opera itself.

                                If I have two windows in close approximation and my mouse passes over them both they will get in this tug-o-war for focus and I'll have to kill Opera to regain control over it.

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                                • jamesisin
                                  jamesisin @IKuyanov last edited by jamesisin

                                  @ikuyanov I was able to confirm this auto-raise behavior is connected to the "Sloppy" focus setting (on Ubuntu 18.04.6) with "Raise Windows When Focused" turned "Off". Turning "Raise..." "On" also raises Opera windows but does so without the delay observed (correct behavior) in other windows raising.

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                                  • morckx
                                    morckx last edited by

                                    The bug is still present in Opera 83.0.4232.0.

                                    (I haven't checked yet in which version the bug appeared first).

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                                    • FabriceN
                                      FabriceN last edited by

                                      Same here( Ubuntu 20.04, Mate ) , and still with today's update 😞 . Super aggravating on the small screen of a laptop.

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                                      • morckx
                                        morckx @morckx last edited by

                                        Click-to-raise is still broken on 83.0.4239.0

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                                        • sgunhouse
                                          sgunhouse Moderator @morckx last edited by

                                          @morckx I presume you mean not raising unless clicked, as the thread is about the window being raised when it is not clicked (if you've set "Focus follows mouse"). The window manager supports programs raising themselves, and the problem is Opera thinks it should be raised when it receives focus.

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                                          • morckx
                                            morckx @sgunhouse last edited by

                                            @sgunhouse

                                            Absolutely. Click-to-raise is in so far broken, as a corresponding setting in the window manager is ignored by Opera, auto-raising when it receives focus, without a click.

                                            The issue is only present on Linux and not on Mac and Windows.

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