RFE: Never, ever steal focus.

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On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:58:11 +0100, David Tardon wrote:


>>  gconftool-2 -s -t string /apps/metacity/general/focus_new_windows
>>  strict

thanks for that...

>> To be useful - when that's set, new windows never take focus away from
>> a window that looks like a terminal window. (This is assuming the above
>> opens a new window. If it changes an existing window, then
>> "focus_new_windows" won't affect the behavior.)
>> 
>> 
> Doesn't work. I set this, then started gedit from gnome-terminal. The
> gedit window got focus.

Are you sure you didn't have another gedit window open.  It seems to work 
as Owen mentioned (only if you don't have an existing window open)... 
it's so close to what I needed, unfortunately I always keep a browser 
open in the background.