On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 03:17:45PM +0000, 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 window that looks like a terminal window. (This is assuming the above
> >> opens a new window. If it changes an existing window, then
> >> "focus_new_windows" won't affect the behavior.)
> >>
> >>
> > Doesn't work. I set this, then started gedit from gnome-terminal. The
> > gedit window got focus.
>
> Are you sure you didn't have another gedit window open. It seems to work
> as Owen mentioned (only if you don't have an existing window open)...
> it's so close to what I needed, unfortunately I always keep a browser
> open in the background.
>

Definitely not, I use gedit as a test application only. But I see what's
the problem now--it only works from freshly started terminal. So all the
terminals that were running at the moment I set focus_new_windows to
strict didn't pick that setting and continue to open new windows
focused. Isn't that a bug in gnome-terminal (or metacity)?

D.

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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 e-mail, nothing should ever take
> > keyboard focus away from that window.
> >
> > Clearly I'm missing something, otherwise we would have this, hence the
> > posting to the list
>
> I'm not sure what you are missing, but I know what I'm missing here - a
> description of when exactly focus was stolen from you that was a
> problem.
>
> In almost all cases, if you are typing into one application in Fedora,
> and a window pops up from another application and steals away your
> focus, and your typing goes to the wrong place, that's a bug that should
> be filed against one of:

I just realised that not only focus stealing when typing, but also when
reading is annoying. E.g. here firefox just crashed, so I restarted it
and while it opened all its tabs and windows, I wanted to read mails.
But then firefox steals the focus several times for its windows.

Is this something that is supposed to happen?

Regards
Till
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