Re: Firefox on wrong desktop

[didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com>]

Le 12/07/2023 à 04:53, Manphiz a écrit :
> <paulf@quillandmouse.com> writes:
>
> > Folks:
> >
> > This is Bookworm, XFCE4. Using claws-mail, when I click on a web link,
> > it opens a tab for that URL on Firefox. As expected. I run Firefox on
> > desktop 1 and claws-mail on desktop 2. However, when claws-mail
> > launches a tab in firefox, it moves firefox to desktop 2, on top of
> > claws-mail.
> >
> > Obscure, I know. Any solutions?
> >
> > Paul
>
> This seems to be an issue with XFce4's window manager.  The same
> happened to me with thunderbird + Chrome.  It doesn't happen on Gnome.
> Probably worth filing a bug against xfwm4.
>
> --
> Manphiz

Hello,

This is not a bug.
Xfce has a different default choice to Gnome, that's all.

It seems (not tested, I haven't used Xfce for years) that you can adjust 
this behavior to your preferences:
https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfwm4/wmtweaks#focus

the "Do nothing" option would probably do the trick