After an evaluation, GNOME has moved from Bugzilla to GitLab. Learn more about GitLab.
No new issues can be reported in GNOME Bugzilla anymore.
To report an issue in a GNOME project, go to GNOME GitLab.
Do not go to GNOME Gitlab for: Bluefish, Doxygen, GnuCash, GStreamer, java-gnome, LDTP, NetworkManager, Tomboy.
Bug 139191 - Flash windows/dialogs instead of letting them steal/take focus or be raised
Flash windows/dialogs instead of letting them steal/take focus or be raised
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: Sawfish
Classification: Deprecated
Component: Window Manager
pre-1.3.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
: 1.5.x
Assigned To: John Harper
sawfish QA Team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-04-05 21:51 UTC by Brian "netdragon" Bober
Modified: 2009-08-16 15:39 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Brian "netdragon" Bober 2004-04-05 21:51:44 UTC 
Sawfish allows a new Window to take/steal focus (bug 73118). I offer a solution
to this issue that has been implemented in Windows XP. Flash windows and their
window list entry when they are created, but don't allow them to steal focus. On
Windows XP, an application can still take focus if it really wants to, but it
would have to do more than open a window. It'd have to mess with the z-order of
the Windows. Therefore, this wouldn't stop an application from taking focus if
it REALLY wants to, just stopping that from being the default behavior for
showing new windows.
Comment 1 Brian "netdragon" Bober 2004-04-05 21:57:21 UTC 
Perhaps even though sawfish is a different Window Manager than metacity, should
this still be a dupe? http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118372
Comment 2 Brian "netdragon" Bober 2004-04-05 22:18:45 UTC 
I meant a window/dialog shouldn't be raised or focused without the user doing
it. This also applies to new windows/dialogs or old windows/dialogs that have
some activity.
Comment 3 Christopher Roy Bratusek 2009-08-16 15:38:43 UTC 
There's

focus-windows-when-mapped
ignore-window-input-hint

setting both to nil should solve your issue

closing: NOTABUG
Comment 4 Christopher Roy Bratusek 2009-08-16 15:39:30 UTC 
While it's still above the current one. But this would be another bug-report.