On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 05:23:20PM -0800, Miles Lane wrote: > The most aggrevating example, though, is when I start ANY application > from gnome-terminal (emacs, amarok, firefox, whatever). I now have to > click on the application window to give it focus. I hate this! I, > personally, think it is brain-dead to not give focus to applications > when they start (with the exception of dialogs which should be "system > modal" in Windows parlance). What if you start something in the background in your shell? GNOME has no way to know whether you just typed "emacs" or "emacs &". In the latter case you don't necessarily want the focus transferred to Emacs. Anyway, do you do anything with gnome-terminal or any other program after you start the application, but before its window actually opens? Metacity's focus-stealing prevention is supposed to kick in only if you interact with anything else after you started the application - the new window then will not grab the focus. It's not supposed to be unconditional, unless there's a bug that ought to be reported. What happens if you enter "emacs" and keep your hands away from the mouse and the keyboard? -- Rudi -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list