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Bug 73118 - New windows maybe shouldn't take focus
New windows maybe shouldn't take focus
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: Sawfish
Classification: Deprecated
Component: Window Manager
pre-1.3.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: 3.0.x
Assigned To: sawfish-maint
sawfish-maint
: 610267 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-03-01 15:14 UTC by Havoc Pennington
Modified: 2011-06-18 07:23 UTC
See Also:
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Description Havoc Pennington 2002-03-01 15:14:56 UTC 
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51492
Comment 1 John Harper 2002-04-03 06:24:56 UTC 
I think it's good that windows come up focused, EXCEPT when the user
is currently typing

So ideally we'd only move focus if the keyboard hasn't been touched
for a short period

I don't know if this is doable in X though..
Comment 2 John Harper 2002-04-23 07:39:54 UTC 
(marking as NEW since I'm not actively working on any of these right now)
Comment 3 Brian "netdragon" Bober 2004-04-05 21:41:10 UTC 
The user could be watching something on the screen. Stealing focus is never good
(could "steal focus" be added to the bug summary?) Windows XP does something
that I like a lot. It flashes the button within the taskbar for that particular
app and flashes the application's Window. To actually steal focus, an
application would have to do it intentionally by mucking with the z-order.
Comment 4 Brian "netdragon" Bober 2004-04-05 22:21:21 UTC 
Nor should they be raised unless a user asks for it. I'm curious if this will be
affected by bug 118372 (metacity) or if this will have to be fixed independently.

I filed bug 139191 on my proposal, which applies to new windows/dialogs, along
with old windows/dialogs that have activity.
Comment 5 Teika Kazura 2010-10-09 07:04:15 UTC 
*** Bug 610267 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Christopher Roy Bratusek 2010-10-13 15:02:25 UTC 
There's an user-option. And since 1.5x we support _NET_WM_USER_TIME. The issue only remains for enter-* focus-modes.
Comment 7 Christopher Roy Bratusek 2011-06-18 07:23:23 UTC 
Closing. New report at our new BugTracker:

http://sawfish.tuxfamily.org/flyspray/index.php?do=details&task_id=8&project=1