Clicking a link in thunderbird brings browser to current workspace

Dominik Klein dk at in-telegence.net
Thu Jan 25 08:48:12 CET 2007


> 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.

Thanks. Enabling this option sets it the way I want it.

Regards
Dominik



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