Focus of new windows in metacity

Kyrre Ness Sjobak kyrre at solution-forge.net
Fri Apr 15 21:42:44 UTC 2005


fre, 15.04.2005 kl. 20.38 skrev Behdad Esfahbod:
> On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Colin Charles wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 22:06 -0400, Eric Warnke wrote:
> >
> > Yes, "fixed" with GNOME 2.10
> >
> > Now, how do I revert it back to the old behaviour, because I find not
> > getting my GAIM messages pop-up to be something that negates
> > productivity
> 
> Exactly.  I have to keep polling the GAIM window...  Not only
> that, when I click on a PDF file in a browser, it takes a while
> to figure out why *nothing is happening*.  Well, because the PDF
> viewer is opened in the background...  I can only hope FC4
> doesn't ship with this setting.  Any chance to do that?
> 
> > Thanks
> 
> --behdad
> http://behdad.org/

Perhaps the best way to do it, would be to have an API call which told
metacity to never let anything take focus from it. So that pasword
dialogs etc. wouldn't suffer todays problems, and no new problems would
be generated.

Kyrre




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