Focus of new windows in metacity

[Otto J. Makela]

On basic Fedora Core 3 gnome (using the Metacity window
damager), and traditional focus-follows-mouse, how does one
prevent the focus from changing when a new window is opened?

At least for me, the principle of least astonishment is
continuously broken when a newly opened window grabs the focus
from right under my mouse pointer (and I need to move the
pointer out of my window and then back in to regain it).

piglet:~% uname -a
Linux piglet.otto.net 2.6.10-1.770_FC3smp #1 SMP Thu Feb 24 14:20:06 EST 2005
	i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
piglet:~% rpm -q xorg-x11 metacity
xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.FC3.13_2.rhfc3.at
metacity-2.8.6-2
piglet:~% cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg)
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