In gconf, try setting the following to false: /apps/metacity/general/auto_raise (Of course, things like this are why I'm still holding on to Sawfish; it lets me set things just as I want them (guess I'm just old and set in my ways)) Tim. On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 13:55, Larry W. Virden wrote: > I'm assisting a number of users in moving from older desktops to GNOME. > Metacity is the only window manager which they are going to have available. > > One of the requests that has come in is whether there is some method of > telling metacity to not be so helpful with window position. > > That is to say - the user wishes to place his windows in a particular > stacking order, and doesn't want the window manager to 'helpfully' raise > the window when he selects text in the window, or pastes into the window, > etc. > > I've been unable to locate any settings that would allow him to operate > in such a fashion. -- _______________________________________________________________________ Timothy E. Peoples Have Camel, Will Code tim@xxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list