on the _old_ frame (the one I moved out of). Apparently the frame switch command gets delivered with some delay and the "changed on disk" message, arriving late, does no longer manage to switch frames. I cannot absolutely vouch that the window manager setting "sloppy" (which can be selected with gnome-tweak-tool) is innocent of the problem. But there are no delay settings to select. 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