More flexible new window focus setting would be nice

[Balazs Marton]

On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, David Mohr wrote:

> On 08/20/2010 08:49 AM, Balazs Marton wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Sorry I bring up a year-old discussion, but here is a user everyone was
>> looking
>> for: yes, I would prefer that new windows come up unfocused, and SECOND
>> in the
>> windows stack, not first (thus not covering my focused window). I
>> changed from
>> Gnome exactly for steal focus reasons, and happened to meet Xfce when
>> the above
>> behavior was possible, and I did like it. Now in newer versions I can't
>> do it
>> anymore, and I miss it. So let me double the wish from Guido:
>>
>> Yes, me too would suggest to split the "automatically focus new windows"
>> option:
>>
>> [ ] automatically raise new windows
>>      [ ] automatically focus new windows
>>
>> (and I would leave both unchecked and live happily).
>
> I'm pretty sure that's the behavior you get when you enable focus
> stealing prevention and don't check to give focus to new windows. That's
> the behavior most people complain about btw ;-).
>
> ~David

That's my setting right now, and new windows indeed don't get focus BUT they
come up above all existing windows (and last in the windows stack). Points
after "BUT" are those I would like to see changed after checking/unchecking
appropriate boxes. I agree this is not what most people want... :-)

Marton