Applications stealing focus - making it behave like TweakUI?

[Andrew Robinson]

4.2. I'm not quite willing to upgrade my work computer to a beta.
Guess I'll have to wait for the official release.

Thanks for the information.

-Andrew

On 6/2/06, juha <kautto.juha at kolumbus.fi> wrote:
> 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
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