As mentioned in Bug 644193 The Bug is still present in 12.10. However if you type "hamster-time- tracker toggle" from xterm it gets focus. So a workaround would be to bind Super-H (or whatever) to
xterm -e hamster-time-tracker toggle Little downside: there is a short flickering of the xterm as it opens and closes -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/701187 Title: Toggling the Hamster applet via hotkey does not reliably bring the window to the front To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hamster-applet/+bug/701187/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs