On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 12:35 -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > Quoting Adam Jackson (ajax@xxxxxxxxxx): > > On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 11:23 -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > > > There is no case where I want a new window or popup to take focus. Makes > > > for an easy algorithm. (hitting r in mutt is not a problem :) > > > > There is no case where _you_ want this, sure. > > Yes, exactly. You're saying that > 1. there are cases where you want a window to pop up > 2. it's too complicated to figure out which windows should pop up > 3. so windows should always pop up, no point being configurable > > and ridiculing us over (2). I'm saying there are no cases where I want > a popup, so we can easily have 2 configurable options: always have windows > pop up and take focus, never have them do so. Ahh, I see the misunderstanding here: I'm not arguing point three. I'm not even really arguing point 2, as you phrased it; it's not _too_ complicated, it's merely complicated. I'm arguing that there exists an implementation that tries to prevent focus stealing, and trying to illustrate why that's a hard problem. And thus, why the OP's RFE as stated, is either not achievable, or not desirable. I mean, in some sense, this is all academic anyway. It's trivial to write an X app that steals focus, regardless of what the window manager attempts to implement. But even assuming you're running relatively well-behaved applications, it's still not an easy problem. - ajax
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