Metacity window focus behaviour?

[Svante Signell <svante signell telia com>]

Anyone knows how to disable new windows popping up _not_ to get focus
when they appear? This was selecteble in Sawfish, but I have not found
this in the Windows menu of the Desktop Preferences (only mouse window
selection and raising of windows). It is very annoying to have a new
window taking focus, e.g. an application running and a graph is
displayed in a separate window and this window gets focus instead of
remaining in the original window. 

Gnome version is Debian unstable, currently a mix of 2.6.1, 2.6.2 and
2.8.0.

ii  gnome          58             The GNOME Desktop Environment, with
extra components
ii  gnome-desktop-environment 58             The GNOME Desktop
Environment
ii  gnome-desktop-data 2.6.1-2        Common files for GNOME 2 desktop
apps
ii  metacity       2.8.1-4        A lightweight GTK2 based Window
Manager