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Bug 116164 - Focuses on new windows even in PointerRoot mode
Focuses on new windows even in PointerRoot mode
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: general
2.5.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Metacity maintainers list
Metacity maintainers list
: 126874 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-06-28 03:14 UTC by Keith Packard
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
Sets focus for new windows only in click-to-type mode (482 bytes, patch)
2003-06-28 03:34 UTC, Keith Packard 		none Details | Review

Description Keith Packard 2003-06-28 03:14:54 UTC 
Metacity always sets focus on new windows even when the focus mode is set
to 'sloppy' or 'mouse'.  Getting the focus back where it belongs requires
moving the mouse outside of the current window and back in.
Comment 1 Keith Packard 2003-06-28 03:34:40 UTC 
Created attachment 17848 [details] [review]
Sets focus for new windows only in click-to-type mode
Comment 2 Rob Adams 2003-06-28 04:10:58 UTC 
or clicking on the window.  This has gone back and forth a few times.
 A new EWMH hint linked to from another bug here somewhere has a more
definitive solution.

But we do need to make a number of exceptions to the way sloppy or
mouse focus works beyond the always focus the window with the mouse
(alt tab for example) to make it usable.

We think that the vast majority of the time, the user will want the
new window to be focused.  The user time EWMH hint should fix it for
the remaining cases.
Comment 3 Rob Adams 2003-11-16 04:02:22 UTC 
*** Bug 126874 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***