GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 163797
New window grabs focus while I am typing
Last modified: 2005-01-12 16:54:16 UTC
Distribution: Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Package: metacity Severity: normal Version: GNOME2.8.1 2.8.x Gnome-Distributor: Gentoo Linux Synopsis: New window grabs focus while I am typing Bugzilla-Product: metacity Bugzilla-Component: general Bugzilla-Version: 2.8.x Description: Description of Problem: While I am typing, a new window sometimes grabs focus. I end up typing in the unexpected window. The unexpected window usually belongs to a program running in the background. Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Run two programs. Type in one and leave the other runnning in the background. 2. The one in the background needs some user input. It opens a new window. 3. You end up typing in the new window. Actual Results: New windows get focus. Expected Results: Focus should not change when a new window appears. How often does this happen? Additional Information: ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2005-01-12 07:16 ------- Unknown platform unknown. Setting to default platform "Other". Unknown milestone "unknown" in product "metacity". Setting to default milestone for this product, '---' Setting to default status "UNCONFIRMED". Setting qa contact to the default for this product. This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one.
There's code in stable 2.8.x version of Metacity with x>=5 to handle this, but it was disabled because of insufficient support in other apps (and even in gtk+). If you want to try it out anyway with the 2.8.x releases (which isn't supported so don't file bugs that you find from this), you can re-enable it by reversing the patch in comment 56 of bug 149028. Or, better yet, upgrade to one of the latest 2.9.x development releases which have full support for this and for which we are supporting and fixing (i.e. feel free to file bugs if you go this route). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 118372 ***