I have the Windows preference for "Dialogs on top" set to Aggressive.

but if I leave, say, the layers window to work in my document, the layers window goes behind the active document window.

anybody else?

I'm using 0.48 on a Mac within X11


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InkCat wrote:but if I leave, say, the layers window to work in my document, the layers window goes behind the active document window.

It works fine with Inkscape 0.47 and 0.48 on OS X Leopard 10.5.8 (Quartz 2.4.0) with these settings:

Dialog behavior:
• dockable
Dialogs on top:
• normal

If the Layers dialog is undocked, it floats above the main window, even when focus is returned to the canvas.
Minor known issue: when working with several document windows (opened from within Inkscape, not by double-clicking Inkscape files in the finder) Inkscape doesn't properly keep track of which undocked dialog belongs to which window.

It also works for me with

Dialog behavior:
• floating
Dialogs on top:
• normal

Possibly newer X11/Xquartz versions (on Snow Leopard) have additional preferences for window management and how dialogs or utility windows are handled?

X11 Preferences on my system are set to:

Windows:
• [x] Click-through Inactive Windows
  
• [ ] Focus Follows Mouse
• [ ] Focus On New Windos

thank you...I adjust my settings to match yours and things seem to be behaving correctly now.

thanks for posting that information, ~suv