Re: Focus stealing prevention

On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 09:07 -0500, Todd Chambery wrote:
No sloppy focus, just that any application opening a window opens under
the active window, if the active window receives focus before the new
window opens.

The best use case for this feature is IM: I'm about to type my password
into a web page, someone sends an IM, my password is passed in plain
text to the IM window.


Check with gconf-editor if "/apps/metacity/general/focus_mode" is set to
sloppy .

and what is the value of "/apps/metacity/general/focus_new_windows" ?

Todd

On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 13:58 -0300, Ben Steeves wrote:
On 6/7/07, Todd Chambery <chambery.dev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all,

I've noticed recently (at least since Feisty, possibly before) that
Gnome's "focus stealing prevention" seems to have disappeared. When I
log and begin typing my keyring password for the wireless network, the
Gaim buddy list steals my cursor. Typing this email, I started Firefox,
returned to this message and the browser steals my cursor. This small
but significant feature was one of Gnome's key differentiators with
Windows.

Am I crazy, or has something changed?

Did you have sloppy focus turned on before? In the Windows
preferences panel there's an option, "Select windows when the mouse
moves over them". If you have that turned on, the behavior is
referred to as "sloppy focus" and it generally prevents focus
stealing.

Sloppy focus takes a little getting used to but I can't live without
it now. It makes working on any OS/WM that doesn't support it very
painful. The most useful feature (for me) is the ability to type in
one window without bringing it to the front (a sub-behavior of sloppy
focus that can be controlled separately).

Ben


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