GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 587353
option not to grab focus
Last modified: 2021-05-25 17:45:39 UTC
Hello :-) How about adding a command line option to stop the zenity dialog grabbing focus? This would be useful when the programmer wants to display a dialog to the user while allowing the user to continue working in the current window until they are ready to interact with the dialog. Best Charles
I'm sorry, I didn't understand very well what you mean. Zenity was made to be used, when you want to show to the user some dialog, what's the point to zenity don't be the window focus? If that's happen, probably the user may forgot to check the zenity window (mainly now on gnome 3). I don't think that's the point, so please give me a user case.
One use case is a copy typist looking at the original text, not the screen, when Zenity is used to display a reminder. In that case it would be useful if the user's keystrokes continued to be directed to the text entry program after the Zenity window was displayed. Text entry would then continue uninterrupted and the information displayed by Zenity would be available when the user next looked at the screen.
I got it. Would you like to write a patch for this? I think it's usefull only for information/error/question/warning dialogs.
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