Re: Focus stealing

[Mark Tiefenbruck <mark fluxbox org>]

You'd be surprised. Fluxbox has a setting, and I'm sure many other WMs
do too, to disable focusing new windows. It drives me batty. 99% of
the time a window opens on my screen, I want it to steal the focus.
Either I opened it from a terminal (which can't possibly know whether
a command it runs will open a window) or from a keybinding (ditto),
and I opened it because I wanted to use it. Then I have to alt-tab to
get to the window I wanted in the first place. Of course, there are
times when the WM can tell that you wouldn't want a new window to gain
focus, such as while you're typing. Many WMs handle this case, so I
don't imagine this is your problem. I would suggest addressing the
programs that are opening so many unwanted windows on your screen.

  Mark

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Michael T <raselmsh hotmail com> wrote:
> 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
>
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