On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 03:59:14PM -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 16:00 +0100, nodata wrote:
I'd like to suggest an enhancement for Fedora 13: nothing should ever
steal focus from the window I am typing in. If I am typing in a shell
window, or in a word processor, or an
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 22:43 -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Adam Jackson a...@redhat.com wrote:
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 11:23 -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
There is no case where I want a new window or popup to take focus. Makes
for an easy algorithm. (hitting
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:29 AM, Tomas Mraz tm...@redhat.com wrote:
... snip ...
The problem is that the automatic focus change only when intended by
user will never be done 100% correctly. This is just impossible to do.
So the actual better user experience case would be to always require
On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:58:11 +0100, David Tardon wrote:
gconftool-2 -s -t string /apps/metacity/general/focus_new_windows
strict
thanks for that...
To be useful - when that's set, new windows never take focus away from
a window that looks like a terminal window. (This is assuming the
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 09:29:55AM +0100, Tomas Mraz wrote:
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 22:43 -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Adam Jackson a...@redhat.com wrote:
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 11:23 -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
There is no case where I want a new window
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 02:24:17PM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
They do happen to have the same WM_CLASS and WM_CLIENT_LEADER window
properties. But that still only addresses automatic focus changes
within a single application. Automatic focus changes across apps is
probably desirable;
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 03:17:45PM +, Zing wrote:
On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:58:11 +0100, David Tardon wrote:
gconftool-2 -s -t string /apps/metacity/general/focus_new_windows
strict
thanks for that...
To be useful - when that's set, new windows never take focus away from
a
I'd like to suggest an enhancement for Fedora 13: nothing should ever
steal focus from the window I am typing in. If I am typing in a shell
window, or in a word processor, or an e-mail, nothing should ever take
keyboard focus away from that window.
Clearly I'm missing something, otherwise we
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 9:00 AM, nodata l...@nodata.co.uk wrote:
I'd like to suggest an enhancement for Fedora 13: nothing should ever steal
focus from the window I am typing in. If I am typing in a shell window, or
in a word processor, or an e-mail, nothing should ever take keyboard focus
away
Le 06/01/2010 16:20, Adam Miller a écrit :
I'm pretty sure there are a number of window managers that will do
this, and metacity might even have this option but just doesn't do it
by default.
-AdamM
If i remember well, focus stealing prevention was a Fedora Core 4/GNOME
2.10 feature (bz
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 16:00 +0100, nodata wrote:
I'd like to suggest an enhancement for Fedora 13: nothing should ever
steal focus from the window I am typing in. If I am typing in a shell
window, or in a word processor, or an e-mail, nothing should ever take
keyboard focus away from that
On 06/01/2010 15:43, Haïkel Guémar wrote:
If i remember well, focus stealing prevention was a Fedora Core 4/GNOME
2.10 feature (bz #138453) .
I think t's still enabled by default in Metacity, but maybe there are
some regressions.
Works here, but only if desktop effects are not enabled.
-Phil
On 1/6/10 11:07 AM, Adam Jackson wrote:
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 16:00 +0100, nodata wrote:
I'd like to suggest an enhancement for Fedora 13: nothing should ever
steal focus from the window I am typing in. If I am typing in a shell
window, or in a word processor, or an e-mail, nothing should
Le 06/01/2010 17:19, Philip Heron a écrit :
On 06/01/2010 15:43, Haïkel Guémar wrote:
If i remember well, focus stealing prevention was a Fedora Core 4/GNOME
2.10 feature (bz #138453) .
I think t's still enabled by default in Metacity, but maybe there are
some regressions.
Works here, but
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:00 AM, nodata l...@nodata.co.uk wrote:
I'd like to suggest an enhancement for Fedora 13: nothing should ever steal
focus from the window I am typing in. If I am typing in a shell window, or
in a word processor, or an e-mail, nothing should ever take keyboard focus
On Wednesday 06 January 2010 10:07:58 am Adam Jackson wrote:
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 16:00 +0100, nodata wrote:
I'd like to suggest an enhancement for Fedora 13: nothing should ever
steal focus from the window I am typing in. If I am typing in a shell
window, or in a word processor, or an
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 11:36 -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote:
On 1/6/10 11:07 AM, Adam Jackson wrote:
PGA.
Here's the challenge. To reply to this mail, I hit control-shift-r in
one evo window, and evo opened a new window for me to compose into. Get
it? I typed into one window, and then
On 06/01/10 17:00, Adam Jackson wrote:
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 11:36 -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote:
On 1/6/10 11:07 AM, Adam Jackson wrote:
PGA.
Here's the challenge. To reply to this mail, I hit control-shift-r in
one evo window, and evo opened a new window for me to compose into. Get
it? I
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 12:00 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
Now make that work for the (not uncommon) case of clicking a link in evo
or control-clicking one in gnome-terminal and expecting firefox to pop
forward with that page.
That suggestion also fails for the PolicyKit dialog, and anything
Quoting Adam Jackson (a...@redhat.com):
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 11:36 -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote:
On 1/6/10 11:07 AM, Adam Jackson wrote:
PGA.
Here's the challenge. To reply to this mail, I hit control-shift-r in
one evo window, and evo opened a new window for me to compose into.
ons 2010-01-06 klockan 17:38 +0100 skrev Haïkel Guémar:
D-E enables either compiz or gnome-shell since F-12, the first one is a
different windows manager, the second is based on Mutter a fork of
Metacity (therefore, focus stealing prevention should work).
I've considered suggesting that
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 11:23 -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
Quoting Adam Jackson (a...@redhat.com):
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 11:36 -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote:
I'd go with don't let a different app steal focus. Windows for the
same currently focused app are allowed to. This works pretty well
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Adam Jackson a...@redhat.com wrote:
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 11:23 -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
Quoting Adam Jackson (a...@redhat.com):
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 11:36 -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote:
I'd go with don't let a different app steal focus. Windows for the
Quoting Adam Jackson (a...@redhat.com):
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 11:23 -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
Quoting Adam Jackson (a...@redhat.com):
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 11:36 -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote:
I'd go with don't let a different app steal focus. Windows for the
same currently focused
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 12:35:03 -0600
Serge E. Hallyn se...@us.ibm.com wrote:
Yes, exactly. You're saying that
1. there are cases where you want a window to pop up
2. it's too complicated to figure out which windows should
pop up 3. so windows should always pop up, no point being
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 01:27:07PM -0500, Fulko Hew wrote:
I'd say... only take focus if its a child/creation of the window currently
in focus.
You don't want ssh passphrase windows to take focus?
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On 01/06/2010 06:50 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 01:27:07PM -0500, Fulko Hew wrote:
I'd say... only take focus if its a child/creation of the window currently
in focus.
You don't want ssh passphrase windows to take focus?
Hell, no! :-)
Andrew.
--
Quoting Simo Sorce (sso...@redhat.com):
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 12:35:03 -0600
Serge E. Hallyn se...@us.ibm.com wrote:
Yes, exactly. You're saying that
1. there are cases where you want a window to pop up
2. it's too complicated to figure out which windows should
pop up 3. so
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 12:35 -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
Quoting Adam Jackson (a...@redhat.com):
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 11:23 -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
There is no case where I want a new window or popup to take focus. Makes
for an easy algorithm. (hitting r in mutt is not a problem
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 13:27 -0500, Fulko Hew wrote:
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Adam Jackson a...@redhat.com wrote:
There is no case where _you_ want this, sure.
I'd say... only take focus if its a child/creation of the window
currently in focus.
creation of is not something
Quoting Adam Jackson (a...@redhat.com):
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 12:35 -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
Quoting Adam Jackson (a...@redhat.com):
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 11:23 -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
There is no case where I want a new window or popup to take focus.
Makes
for an
On 1/6/10 1:41 PM, Adam Jackson wrote:
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 17:32 +, Andrew Haley wrote:
On 01/06/2010 05:00 PM, Adam Jackson wrote:
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 11:36 -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote:
I'd go with don't let a different app steal focus. Windows for the
same currently focused app are
On 01/06/2010 01:27 PM, Fulko Hew wrote:
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Adam Jackson a...@redhat.com
mailto:a...@redhat.com wrote:
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 11:23 -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
Quoting Adam Jackson (a...@redhat.com mailto:a...@redhat.com):
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 02:24:17PM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 13:27 -0500, Fulko Hew wrote:
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Adam Jackson a...@redhat.com wrote:
There is no case where _you_ want this, sure.
I'd say... only take focus if its a child/creation
On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:53:21 -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:00 AM, nodata l...@nodata.co.uk wrote:
I'd like to suggest an enhancement for Fedora 13: nothing should ever
steal focus from the window I am typing in. If I am typing in a shell
window, or in a word
On 01/06/2010 03:21 PM, Till Maas wrote:
How about making the gnome-panel give away its focus to the newly
created window? Within the gnome-panel, it should be pretty obvious
which actions should give away the focus and which should not. I do not
know, how easy to implement it is, though.
Am 2010-01-06 18:17, schrieb Matthew Booth:
On 06/01/10 17:00, Adam Jackson wrote:
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 11:36 -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote:
On 1/6/10 11:07 AM, Adam Jackson wrote:
PGA.
Here's the challenge. To reply to this mail, I hit control-shift-r in
one evo window, and evo opened a new
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 16:00 +0100, nodata wrote:
I'd like to suggest an enhancement for Fedora 13: nothing should ever
steal focus from the window I am typing in. If I am typing in a shell
window, or in a word processor, or an e-mail, nothing should ever take
keyboard focus away from that
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 12:35 -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
Quoting Adam Jackson (a...@redhat.com):
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 11:23 -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
Quoting Adam Jackson (a...@redhat.com):
There is no case where I want a new window or popup to take focus. Makes
for an easy
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 03:32:26PM -0500, Peter Jones wrote:
On 01/06/2010 03:21 PM, Till Maas wrote:
How about making the gnome-panel give away its focus to the newly
created window? Within the gnome-panel, it should be pretty obvious
which actions should give away the focus and which should
Am 2010-01-06 21:59, schrieb Owen Taylor:
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 16:00 +0100, nodata wrote:
I'd like to suggest an enhancement for Fedora 13: nothing should ever
steal focus from the window I am typing in. If I am typing in a shell
window, or in a word processor, or an e-mail, nothing should
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 22:12 +0100, Till Maas wrote:
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 03:32:26PM -0500, Peter Jones wrote:
On 01/06/2010 03:21 PM, Till Maas wrote:
How about making the gnome-panel give away its focus to the newly
created window? Within the gnome-panel, it should be pretty obvious
nodata writes:
Am 2010-01-06 18:17, schrieb Matthew Booth:
On 06/01/10 17:00, Adam Jackson wrote:
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 11:36 -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote:
On 1/6/10 11:07 AM, Adam Jackson wrote:
PGA.
Here's the challenge. To reply to this mail, I hit control-shift-r in
one evo window, and
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 23:04 +, Zing wrote:
On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:59:14 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 16:00 +0100, nodata wrote:
I'd like to suggest an enhancement for Fedora 13: nothing should ever
steal focus from the window I am typing in. If I am typing in a
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Adam Jackson a...@redhat.com wrote:
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 11:23 -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
There is no case where I want a new window or popup to take focus. Makes
for an easy algorithm. (hitting r in mutt is not a problem :)
There is no case where _you_
gconftool-2 -s -t string /apps/metacity/general/focus_new_windows strict
To be useful - when that's set, new windows never take focus away from
a window that looks like a terminal window. (This is assuming the above
opens a new window. If it changes an existing window, then
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