If you're using Compiz, the Window Rules and Place Windows plugins let 
you manipulate a lot of these setting via a decent GUI (CompizConfig 
Settings Manager).

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Joe Shisei Niski
Portland, Oregon, USA
至誠

On 02/02/2011 11:36 AM, Daniel Hedlund wrote:
> While not a perfect solution, you can prevent any window opened from a
> terminal from receiving focus by default.  You can get this behavior
> by changing a registry key in the GConf configuration
> $>  gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/focus_new_windows --type
> string strict
> ......
> There's a tool called Devil's Pie
> (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Devilspie) that allows you to
> control window behavior based on a configuration file.  Among other
> things, you can make it so that when a window matching a certain
> description is created that it automatically gets opened on a specific
> desktop.  Definitely worth checking out.  Additional documentation on
> it's config format:
> http://foosel.org/linux/devilspie
>
>    
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