On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 03:17:45PM +0000, Zing wrote: > On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:58:11 +0100, David Tardon wrote: > > > >> gconftool-2 -s -t string /apps/metacity/general/focus_new_windows > >> strict > > thanks for that... > > >> To be useful - when that's set, new windows never take focus away from > >> a window that looks like a terminal window. (This is assuming the above > >> opens a new window. If it changes an existing window, then > >> "focus_new_windows" won't affect the behavior.) > >> > >> > > Doesn't work. I set this, then started gedit from gnome-terminal. The > > gedit window got focus. > > Are you sure you didn't have another gedit window open. It seems to work > as Owen mentioned (only if you don't have an existing window open)... > it's so close to what I needed, unfortunately I always keep a browser > open in the background. > Definitely not, I use gedit as a test application only. But I see what's the problem now--it only works from freshly started terminal. So all the terminals that were running at the moment I set focus_new_windows to strict didn't pick that setting and continue to open new windows focused. Isn't that a bug in gnome-terminal (or metacity)? D. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
