feature idea: prevent apps from stealing the focus

[Brian J. Tarricone]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Olivier Fourdan wrote:

> 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.

tho i'm not 100% sure, i think he's mainly talking about new windows 
(dialogs, whatever) popping up and stealing focus, simply because new 
windows are set to receive the focus.  (tom, this is actually 
configurable: window manager preferences->keyboard and 
focus->automatically give focus to newly created windows).

what i personally would like to see is for xfwm to be smarter about it.  
by default, give new windows focus.  but as an exception, if i'm typing 
something (i.e., there's been a keypress event within the last x 
milliseconds), don't give the new window focus, and don't raise it to 
the top of the stack.  iirc, metacity does this, which was inspired by 
(i hate to say it) windows xp.

	-brian