Re: Stop new window from grabbing focus

I'm using Ubuntu, but I miss focus-stealing-prevention acutely...

Todd

On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 00:38 +0100, Calum Benson wrote:
On 26 Oct 2007, at 20:55, Jeffery Small wrote:

I'm using Sun's JDS-3 which I believe is based upon gnome 2.6.
When a new
window is displated it is grabbing the focus, which is really
disruptive to
current work. Is there a way to disable this so that focus remains
in the
current window?

This was standard behaviour of metacity in those days, which wasn't
fixed until some time later (GNOME 2.10, I think)-- see http://
bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118372

You don't say whether you're using the Linux or Solaris version of
JDS3... if it's the Linux version, which was based on SuSE, you might
try to track down a newer metacity package and see if it will install
(IIRC SuSE 8.2 packages worked best on JDS3). I doubt it will
install without upgrading some other dependencies as well, though,
which could get messy.

Cheeri,
Calum.


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