Clicking a link in thunderbird brings browser to current workspace

[Olivier Fourdan]

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Dominik Klein wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I do not know if this is xfce or ubuntu or thunderbird related. I 
> thought I'd just give it a shot here.
> 
> I upgraded from 6.06 Xubuntu to 6.10 and installed xfce4.4 using the 
> graphical installer. When clicking a link in an email in thunderbird, it 
> opens in firefox. Ok. But firefox is pulled to the current 
> (thunderbird-)workspace.
> Before the upgrade the browser staid in its workspace.
> 
> Is there a way to get this behaviour back?

This depends on focus stealing prevention. Basically, Firefox tries to
raise itself, to be visible to the user.

Without focus prevention enabled (default), if the window is on another
workspace, then it's bring on the current workspace. Why? Because the
application means to be seen, and if it's on another workspace, it can
hardly be seen.

With focus prevention enabled, the window stays on its current
workspace, but it's flagged as "need attention", which will make it
blink in the tasklist.

I believe this behaviour is correct.

Cheers,
Olivier.
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