For exo version 0.10.4-1 in Fedora 22: If I open xfce4-terminal using "exo-open --launch TerminalEmulator" (and no instances of xfce4-terminal are already open), the newly-created window does not receive focus. One way to reproduce: 1. Hit Alt+F2 to Run Application 2. Enter "exo-open --launch TerminalEmulator" 3. New terminal window will not have focus My current workaround is to change my keyboard shortcuts to "xfce4-terminal" rather than using exo-open.
Maybe related to patch introduced by #9570 (see comment 17) I can't reproduce right now though (with exo 0.13.x).
This bug was resolved with the migration to the g_spawn_* API (exo-0.11.1). https://git.xfce.org/xfce/exo/commit/?id=f016e39ba009e3cfa66c82af9394cae7951e6916