GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 137744
Allow user to tell metacity to NOT focus new windows
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Automatically focussing new windows is extremely dangerous (e.g., when typing code or typing a paper, suddenly a dialog box appears, and you pressed an unknown button with an unknown consequence, because you don't know what dialog appeared, what key you pressed, and/or what button corresponds to the key you just pressed). Therefore the user should be able to configure metacity so that new windows do not automatically get focus.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 118372 ***