Re: Stop new window from grabbing focus

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 26 Oct 2007, at 20:55, Jeffery Small wrote:

> I'm using Sun's JDS-3 which I believe is based upon gnome 2.6.   
> When a new
> window is displated it is grabbing the focus, which is really  
> disruptive to
> current work.  Is there a way to disable this so that focus remains  
> in the
> current window?

This was standard behaviour of metacity in those days, which wasn't  
fixed until some time later (GNOME 2.10, I think)-- see http:// 
bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118372

You don't say whether you're using the Linux or Solaris version of  
JDS3... if it's the Linux version, which was based on SuSE, you might  
try to track down a newer metacity package and see if it will install  
(IIRC SuSE 8.2 packages worked best on JDS3).  I doubt it will  
install without upgrading some other dependencies as well, though,  
which could get messy.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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