Focus stealing prevention doesn't do anything?

[Andrew Robinson]

I have libgtk of 2.8.20-2
Gaim is 1.5

My keyboard focus is stolen, but the window comes to the front. This
is horribly annoying as it comes in front of what I am typing -- may
as well steal the keyboard focus too. I expect it to prevent the
window from being brought to the front and possibly cause the icon in
the taskbars for the program to blink or show some other means of
notifying the user that there is activity.

On 10/19/06, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
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> On 10/19/2006 2:54 PM, Andrew Robinson wrote:
> > I have upgraded my XFCE to 4.3.99.1 (debian etch/testing package)
> >
> > GAIM and other programs still receive focus even though I turned on
> > the focus stealing prevention
> >
> > My settings:
> >
> > Xfce Settings Manager>Window Manager>Focus:
> > Click to focus
> > Set: Automatically give focus to newly created windows
> > Unset: Automatically rais windows when they receive focus
> > Set: Raise window when clicking inside application window
> >
> > Xfce Settings Manager>Window Manager Tweaks>Focus:
> > Set: Activate focus stealing prevention
> > Set: Honor the standard ICCCM focus hint
> >
> > Why is gaim still raising windows when a chat message in an already
> > open window/tab comes in?
>
> This works OK for me with Gaim.  Note that each application has to
> support focus stealing prevention as well as the WM.  I believe gtk 2.6
> or 2.8 will cause all gtk-based apps to support it (though occasionally
> the app developer needs to provide special hints).
>
> Also, what are you expecting, exactly?  The point of focus stealing
> prevention is to avoid moving the keyboard focus from one window to
> another *while you are typing*.  If you haven't typed anything for some
> amount of time, the new window will still get the focus.
>
>         -brian
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