co-ask. If you find your solution privately, could you please send it to me? Thanks.
2013/6/2 Hans Georg Schaathun <[email protected]> > Dear all, > > I have tried googling this question, but all I get is false hits > solving slightly different problems. Can someone help, please? > > How can I prevent newly created windows from stealing focus? > The best tip I found in my search was to search for `manage' in > rc.lua and comment out a `client.focus = c' line. That, however, > just meant that windows would not get focus just by moving the mouse, > and new windows still stole focus. > > Basically, I think the only event which should cause a focus change > is the mouse pointer entering the window. > > The problem I have, to be specific, is a matlab process running on > one screen, while I try to work on another. Since matlab spawns new > figure windows all the time, I repeatedly find my main window having > lost focus half a sentence ago. > > I am assuming that this is a window manager problem, but I might of > course be wrong. Any way to fix it in awesome? > > TIA > -- > :-- Hans Georg > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected]. > -- Best, Haifeng
