<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Thank you, Igor:<br><br></div>I found it. Hope it works. <br><br></div>I appreciate your response,<br><br></div>Alan<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Igor Zakharov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:f2404@yandex.ru" target="_blank">f2404@yandex.ru</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>13.09.2017, 14:32, "Alan E. Davis" <<a href="mailto:lngndvs@gmail.com" target="_blank">lngndvs@gmail.com</a>>:</div><span class=""><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hello:<br> </div>I have tried a plethora of window management systems. XFCE4 is my goto desktop system. I have few problems with it, and I feel confident that it will do what I need it to do. Nice!<br> </div>Well, here's something I could use help with: numerous times, when typing (as today, in a terminal), early, as XFCE4 is just starting up, if I am typing, a new window covers the window I am typing in.<br> </div>Is there a setting that can prevent this? I want the window I am typing in to stay on top and remain active. Otherwise, my thought stream is interrupted as I search for the window that just disappeared. <br> </div>I would appreciate any suggestion. I wonder what is "smart placement". This, in my mind, would be a smart thing for the window manager to do! Stay out of my way.<br> </div>Thank you again,<br> </div>Alan Davis</div></blockquote><div> </div></span><div>Hi Alan,</div><div> </div><div>Have you tried configuring xfwm to not steal focus when opening a new window? <a href="https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfwm4/preferences" target="_blank">https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/<wbr>xfwm4/preferences</a></div><div> </div><div>Regards,</div><div>Igor</div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
Xfce mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:Xfce@xfce.org">Xfce@xfce.org</a><br>
<a href="https://mail.xfce.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://mail.xfce.org/mailman/<wbr>listinfo/xfce</a><br>
<a href="http://www.xfce.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.xfce.org</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">[I do not] carry such information in my mind since it is readily</div><div dir="ltr">available in books. …The value of a college education is not the</div><div dir="ltr">learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think. </div><div> ---Albert Einstein </div><div>"Sweet instruments <span style="font-size:12.8px">hung up in cases. . . keep their sounds to themselves."</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span></div><div> ---Shakespeare, _Timon of Athens_</div></div></div></div></div></div>
</div>