'How to setup webdiver to perform actions in background?

I am currently working in Automation QA. Our project using Java: jbehave, thucydides, selenium. We are working in Ubuntu OS.

Every time I run my tests, I have to stop doing everything(coding, browsing the web), because every click or any action of selenium is taking driver window(we are using chrome driver) in focus(makes window active) and if i do something i mess up the test. Our team is wasting a lot of time because of this.

We have tried Phantomjs, it doesn't work correctly, cannot find elements etc... And also to run tests in virtual machine using vagrant isn't working for us(for company specific reasons).

It is fine if Chrome driver will take over active window when it starts, as long as it would continue performing different actions in background. Strange, but in my previous project(windows, c#, mstest) chromedriver would behave exactly like this without any additional setup. Please help, I know few other teams having this issue. Seems like this issue only on Mac and linux.

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For me (I had the same problem in my Grails project's functional test using Chrome; not with Firefox) works this set up:

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("--start-maximized --disable-popup-blocking");    
new ChromeDriver(options);

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