More flexible new window focus setting would be nice

[Olivier Fourdan]

Jarno

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Jarno Suni <j_suni at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> As for http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4796 does anyone think that using "new window focus" disabled would be a sensible setting? I mean it is supposed to open even preferences windows in background. Why not have the Gnome way: http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4796#c6

What you describe by the "GNOME way" is simply focus stealing prevention.

Since the comment in tBZ were made, I discovered that focus stealing
prvention had no way to work in xfc e4.6 because of several dufferent
bugs affecting both the launchers (panel, menu) and the window
manager.

That was fixed since then and will be part of either RC2 or final,
whatever comes first, and that works most likely like you expect.

Cheers,
Olivier.