Applications stealing focus - making it behave like TweakUI?

[juha]

Andrew Robinson wrote:

>The setting focus to new applications by default on XFCE/X is not
>quite ideal. Under the "Window Manager" settings, there are several
>focus settings, but they really don't add up the way I'd prefer.
>
>The problems I have experiened:
>With "New window focus" and "Raise on focus" turned off sometimes
>windows (dialogs) opened by the current application don't even get
>focus (they sometimes go under the parent application which really is
>not acceptible for most applications). Also, new windows (like GAIM
>chat windows) never come to the front or have any kind of visual hint
>that they want focus - so I miss the fact someone wants to chat.
>
>With focus on, chats and other applications can steal the keyboard
>focus which is really bad. I'm programming in Eclipse, and all of the
>sudden my key strokes are going to a chat window instead.
>
>For Windows there is a tool called TweakUI that does the ideal:
>Popup windows, dialogs etc from the parent window get focus.
>Applications that are not the current ones that try to get the focus
>simply "blink" in the task bar. This way the user's attention is
>received without interupting the focus of the keyboard.
>
>Is there any way to get X and/or XFCE to behave this way?
>
>Thanks,
>Andrew
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Andrew,

Are you using Xfce 4.4 Beta ? or 4.2 ?
In 4.4 you can set focus stealing prevention, which I think solves
your problem and depending on application may cause the blinking
as you wanted.

/Juha