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The Tuesday 2007-08-21 at 11:15 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 13:35 +0200, Clayton wrote:
>
> > I start up applications in Gnome, and continue working on/in another
> > application (eg a document or an email)... when the app I started
> > finally surfaces, it steals the focus and I end up typing a whack of
> > stuff into the new application. I guess I am too impatient. In KDE I
> > can set it to start apps in the background and it works perfectly. I
> > have yet to find such a setting in this Gnome thing.
I also have that problem.
> Which applications in particular are stealing focus?
Openoffice is a typical one, because it can take a minute to start. But it
happens with all of them.
> Which window manager are you using (Metacity or Compiz)?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ps afx | grep "metacit"
5592 ? Ss 4:44 metacity --sm-save-file
1177092186-32076-3020439348.ms
> Metacity prevents focus stealing by default, but it depends on
> applications following certain conventions (otherwise it's not possible
> to reliably prevent focus stealing).
>
> Technical details:
>
> 1. You start an application.
>
> 2. If you don't do anything with the existing windows, the new app's
> window will appear on top and get the focus. I.e. if you just wait for
> the app to start, it will appear on top as expected.
>
> 3. If you did anything with the existing windows (click on them, type on
> them, etc.) the new app will appear in the background and it will not
> get the focus. I.e. if you are busy while the app starts, it will not
> interrupt you when its window appears.
Nope. Not true.
I go to the workspace number 5, and start up Openoffice with a big file.
As soon as I see the first welcome screen, a switch to workspace #1, and
continue working there. Suddenly, OOo grabs the focus back to WS#5. I go
back to #1, and I'm pulled back to #5, several times during the loading
process.
This has been reported months or years ago here, it is a known behavior.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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