Focus stealing stuff...

Harold Aling h.aling at home.nl
Thu Dec 7 20:37:25 CET 2006


Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
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> Harold Aling wrote:
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>> I noticed that with 'focus stealing prevention' enabled, opening a
>> folder from the desktop doesn't give focus to Thunar and that
>> update-manager still steals focus...
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> Unfortunately in the X11 world, focus stealing prevention requires
> some amount of cooperation from the application; the WM can't do it
> all on its own.
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Yeah, I kinda knew that already, but since there were some focus 
stealing prevention updates, I thought I'd mention it...

PS: The 'panel' entry of the settings manager pops under the settings 
manager... (shutting up now;-)


Cheers!
> Not saying xfwm4's focus stealing prevention is perfect, but it's
> more likely that it's the app's fault.
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> 	-brian
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