Having trouble with OD opening windows..Plz read for explaination

Ok, My OD is working perfectly except for one little annoyance. I was wondering if anyone else also has this problem or is this fixable. Heres a senario of the problem:

Say I have Firefox open and any other program (MS paint, Wordpad, etc..)....they both show up on the 'running task' part of OD. Now, when I have the firefox window up where I can see it, and then click on the other program, it ALWAYS opens on the bottom of the first window (firefox). The second program opens up fine, but as soon as i take my mouse off of OD, it jumps to the bottom, making me always having to minimize firefox to get to the program I want to see. Its getting annoying and I was wondering if there is any way to fix it. If you dont understand what im talking about, please say so and i'll try to explain it better. Thanks!

#248196

thats strange, i have not had this happen to me

#248207

I think you have set you dock to "Always on Bottom" - change it to either "always on top" or "normal z-ordering". Personally, i don't think the "Always on Bottom" option works how it's meant to i.e. giving the behaviour you've specified.

i think it should function like "Always on top" giving focus to apps that way, but with the dock stays on the bottom until you activate it. I don't know if it's a bug, but i hope they rectify the problem with "Always on Bottom" not giving/taking away focus correctly on running apps.

#248647

hrmm..

i use Always on Bottom for my OD dock so that it doesn't interfere with my gaming and maximized programs..

anyway...my windows open up fine..

i.e. i can open up fire fox, position it anwhere i like and then open say msn messenger and it opens where it was last positioned ON TOP of firefox..

so i think that the "always on bottom" option is fine..

#248655

if u open new apps, it works fine, but if u go back to a running app it does the behaviour stated above.

#248676

I have the same problem as you. The only way I can "fix" it is by changing the ordering from "Always on bottom" to "z-order".

#248831

It happens to me when I open a new program AND when I try to maximize a window over the curren one. Its really annoying. Yes, the normal Z ordering works for me, I just hope it doesnt interfer with games. We shall see and hope this quirk gets fixed. Thanks for the replys guys!

#248866

just wonderin pexeter..

are u running normal od or od plus

i haven't tried normal od but i the problem doesn't happen in od plus (currently running)

so mite be coz of od version since others are gettn the same prob aswell

#248918

Im sorry, yes, im running OD plus. I use the normal dock, not the tabbed one.

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