Hi, On 19.11.13 20:07 schrieb Vitor Eiji Justus Sakaguti: > On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Johannes Wienke <[email protected]> wrote: >> If a pidgin chat window is visible and I receive a new message, this >> window steals my focus from either another window on the same screen or >> even from another screen. How can I disable this behavior? >> > I work around this problem by adding a rule to have my pidgin windows > open in a given tag and do all my work outside of that tag. > > Perhaps not the most elegant solution, but it has been working for > over two years now :) > > Good luck! > > PS: here's my rule: > > { rule = { class = "Pidgin", role = "conversation" }, > properties = { maximized_horizontal = true, > maximized_vertical = true, > tag = tags[1][9], > size_hints_honor = false }},
Thanks! Actually I just found the solution inside pidgin. The plugin providing the urgent hint also has an option "present window". If you disable this option the focus stealing is gone. Cheers, Johannes
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