On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:59:14 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote: > On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 16:00 +0100, nodata wrote: >> I'd like to suggest an enhancement for Fedora 13: nothing should ever >> steal focus from the window I am typing in. If I am typing in a shell >> window, or in a word processor, or an e-mail, nothing should ever take >> keyboard focus away from that window. >> >> Clearly I'm missing something, otherwise we would have this, hence the >> posting to the list :) > > I'm not sure what you are missing, but I know what I'm missing here - a > description of when exactly focus was stolen from you that was a > problem. > > In almost all cases, if you are typing into one application in Fedora, > and a window pops up from another application and steals away your > focus, and your typing goes to the wrong place, that's a bug that should > be filed against one of: > > - The application that popped up a window - The application that you > are typing into - The window manager > > With the most likely candidate being the first one. If you run into such > problems and you are using GNOME with Metacity (or gnome-shell and > Mutter), please feel free to file bugs against Metacity and I'll help > you figure out where they should be reassigned. > > There are also a number of GConf options for Metacity that can be set to > modify the exact behavior; these are mostly, however, intended as > workarounds for people using closed source applications that can't be > fixed properly. When all the applications are under our control, it > should "just work". Would you (or someone) mind explaining why the following happens and how I could get pre-F12 behaviour?: In Fedora 12, 1. start seamonkey 2. start gnome-terminal (be on top of seamonkey window) 3. $ seamonkey -remote "openurl(http://lwn.net,new-tab)" 4. seamonkey pops in front and steals focus. This used to just load the page in the background without stealing focus. It seems like there are a myriad of confusing ways this can happen and a several options to mitigate it... but I'm lost. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
