Skip tasklist/pager window loses focus

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hi,

Yeah, you'll end up fighting the WM by doing this.

BTW, this behavior is on purpose, you'd have to ask why your window needs
to have the skip pager/taskbar attributes if it's to be focused
automatically.

Cheers,
Olivier

On 5 February 2016 at 16:36, adlo <adloconwy at gmail.com> wrote:

> My program is written in GTK (2 and 3). I have tried calling
> gdk_window_focus () when the active workspace changes, by connecting to
> libwnck's active-workspace-changed signal. This usually works, but I think
> it results in a race condition. Does anyone know of a better approach?
>
> Regards
>
> adlo
>
>
> > On 4 Feb 2016, at 21:23, adlo <adloconwy at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > My program has a window that is skip tasklist, skip pager, and visible
> on all workspaces. When switching workspace (or when another window moves
> to the current workspace), a non-skip-tasklist window will steal the focus
> from my program's window.
> >
> > How can I prevent this from happening?
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > adlo
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