How to configure window focus behaviour?

[Les Mikesell]

Nico Sabbi wrote:
> Il Monday 14 January 2008 23:58:36 Cameron Simpson ha scritto:
> 
>> He's no so much annoyed by modal dialogues (which are an immense
>> app UI design failure, but that's another topic), but that they
>> TAKE THE FOCUS!
>>
>> You're typing away in a terminal, some dialogue pops up and your
>> keyboard focus isn't in the terminal any more. If you're really
>> lucky you were finishing a pargraph and pressed [Enter] and the
>> dialogue took that as [OK] and did something. Who knows what? The
>> dialogue will probably have closed itself!
>>
>> It's perfectly possible for a window manager to prevent this, and
>> KDE can. So can FVWM.
>>
>> He's asking if the Gnome WM can prevent this. It's looking like
>> maybe it can't.
> 
> you couldn't have explained this problem more clearly :)
> I'm very susprised that so few users complain about this behaviour
> of Gnome's WM

I doubt if most people run things that pop modal dialogs when they 
aren't expecting them.  When you are expecting them it is equally 
annoying for something to pop a dialog box where nothing else is going 
to happen until you've typed in it and leave your focus somewhere else.

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