feature idea: prevent apps from stealing the focus

[Tom Wesley]

This in my opinion is a flaw in x then.  I agree swapping it back would
be a dreadful hack, and have visions of text you were typing at the time
flying into different windows as they fight over the focus.

My specific problem is gaim losing focus when "something" happens, like
notifications etc.

Since I'm on about xfwm, would it be possible to have a window grabber
function, similar to devilspie included?  Some windows, like the
Evolution password box really needs some centring!

On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 21:31, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> Tom,
> 
> Nothing can prevent an app from changing focus (XSetInputFocus() can be
> called from any app).
> 
> The WM could try to revert the change, but that's a bit like a hack. I
> can imagine that an app calling XSetInputFocus() does that for good
> reasons.
> 
> In other words, I don't think it's a good idea :)
> 
> Cheers,
> Olivier.
> 
> On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 22:25, Tom Wesley wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I propose a feature for xfwm4 that would prevent new applications from
> > grabbing the keyboard focus from the current active window.  Whether
> > this window should become top-visible or not should probably be a user
> > configurable option, as I can imagine people wanting different things
> > from that.
> > 
> > What do people (and the one-a-day Oliver's ;) think?
-- 
Tom Wesley
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