No sloppy focus, just that any application opening a window opens under the active window, if the active window receives focus before the new window opens. The best use case for this feature is IM: I'm about to type my password into a web page, someone sends an IM, my password is passed in plain text to the IM window. Todd On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 13:58 -0300, Ben Steeves wrote: > On 6/7/07, Todd Chambery <chambery.dev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've noticed recently (at least since Feisty, possibly before) that > > Gnome's "focus stealing prevention" seems to have disappeared. When I > > log and begin typing my keyring password for the wireless network, the > > Gaim buddy list steals my cursor. Typing this email, I started Firefox, > > returned to this message and the browser steals my cursor. This small > > but significant feature was one of Gnome's key differentiators with > > Windows. > > > > Am I crazy, or has something changed? > > Did you have sloppy focus turned on before? In the Windows > preferences panel there's an option, "Select windows when the mouse > moves over them". If you have that turned on, the behavior is > referred to as "sloppy focus" and it generally prevents focus > stealing. > > Sloppy focus takes a little getting used to but I can't live without > it now. It makes working on any OS/WM that doesn't support it very > painful. The most useful feature (for me) is the ability to type in > one window without bringing it to the front (a sub-behavior of sloppy > focus that can be controlled separately). > > Ben > _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
