Re: How to prevent a new window to get the window manager focus

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Joaquín Cuenca Abela <cuenca@pacaterie.u-psud.fr> writes:
> cf. subject.
> 
> I have a program that creates a new window, but I want to prevent the
> window manager from focusing the new created window.
> 
> Anybody knows how to do that without running in race conditions, and
> being wm independent?

I don't think it's possible, even if you mark the window not focusable
(which requires deep unsupported GDK hackery and direct Xlib use to
change the "input" flag in WM_HINTS I think), Sawfish for example has
a "give focus to windows that haven't asked for it" option.

> Btw, yes, I have a good reason.  That's not a "keep consistency with
> other apps and let the wm decide" kind of question.

Is the reason something other people will encounter? If so perhaps
this should be added to the WM spec.

Havoc