[banging head on desk] Update-manager doesn't get focus randomly. It has to ask for it. The window manager (metacity) just does what it's told to do. Anything the window manager does to prevent focus-stealing is a sub-optimal solution, but it's a necessary one when applications are written egocentrically. (By this, I'm not talking about the developer's mental health issues: we're all egocentric. An egocentric application means an application written as if the application is either the only application running or the most important application to the user at the time)
"Obviously, it's not a small, simple fix." Contrary to Sarah's assertion, setting "focus_on_map" to "false" in every instance it appears in update-manager *fixes* update-manager: Update-manager ceases to steal focus when that's done. Here are the files affected: ./data/glade/UpdateManager.glade ./AutoUpgradeTester/DistUpgrade/DistUpgrade.glade ./DistUpgrade/DistUpgrade.glade ./debian/update-manager/usr/share/update-manager/glade/UpdateManager.glade ./debian/update-manager/usr/share/update-manager/glade/DistUpgrade.glade ./debian/tmp/usr/share/update-manager/glade/UpdateManager.glade ./debian/tmp/usr/share/update-manager/glade/DistUpgrade.glade Unfortunately, it doesn't fix gkdebconf or debconf's frontends, which ALSO have the same bug. Here's how to fix those: gkdebconf (I'm using version 1.2.64ubuntu1 to test): Insert the following line 101 in ./src/interface.c: <code> gtk_window_set_focus_on_map (GTK_WINDOW(win), FALSE); </code> and recompile. debconf (I'm using version 1.5.20): Insert the following line 70 to /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Gnome.pm: <code> $this->win->set_focus_on_map(0); </code> Fixing the other frontends (e.g., KDE) are left as an exercise. Caveat: The changes to update-manager described above need to be fine tuned. It's a Good Thing (tm) to allow the GtkWindow to get focus when the user fires up Update-Manager the first time. I just didn't have the patience to figure where in the code that is. Happy Trails, Loye Young Isaac & Young Computer Company Laredo, Texas http://www.iycc.net -- 'Downloading package information' and 'building dependency tree' progress dialogs steal focus https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/35876 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
