HUD opens applications in background

Programms, applications, menu points used with the HUD start in the background. E. g. when trying to open empathy via HUD, I enter 'chat'. The Empathy main window opens in front of every other window, but is still inactive and I have to click on it or choose it with a hotkey combination (e.g. alt+tab).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: indicator-appmenu 0.3.97-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-39.62-generic 3.2.39
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-39-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Mar 20 13:52:08 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/indicator-appmenu/hud-service
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANGUAGE=de_DE:en
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SourcePackage: indicator-appmenu
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)