Re: Focus stealing

[Michael T <raselmsh hotmail com>]

Lubos Lunak <l.lunak <at> suse.cz> wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 of December 2009, Michael T wrote:
> > [Snip]  So, that
> > window could create a property advertising the fact that it is ready to
> > have its focus stolen, optionally including information about the window
> > that will steal the focus to prevent the wrong one from doing it.
> 
>  This already exists. Depending on the exact situation, the "old" window can 
> tell the "new" window to specify it as the parent or use its user activity 
> timestamp. If you have a specific problem, you probably need to report a bug 
> for the application or the window manager.
Thanks for the reply!  I'm rather surprised then that Metacity is still allowing
focus stealing in other situations, but I realise that Metacity is not your main
area of specialisation anyway :)  I will take it up with the maintainers.

Regards,

Michael