https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1194809
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1194809#c3
--- Comment #3 from Martin Wilck
Focus stealing prevention was implemented first on X by GNOME people IIRC, so upstream is aware of it ;)
My original intention with this bug was to request that we set "org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences focus-new-windows 'strict'" by default. Then I discovered that this setting didn't prevent the issue, so requesting it makes no sense. I don't know what else to do about it.
Beware of the test done in terminal, because there is some specific behaviour when terminal is used : (from metacity / mutter 2.13.13, yes this is OLD ;)
- Don't "steal" focus from terminal windows
This doesn't seem to apply to current gnome-shell environment. I wrote this bz because I *did* experience the focus being stolen from a terminal window. (In reply to Andreas Stieger from comment #2)
Thanks. Interesting that this is so old but the issue still occurs. There doesn't seem to be a conclusive answer or solution on the ticket, and the window management technology around it has changed a lot since then. Is the solution to stop using pidgin? Or to use Wayland? Unfortunately I have strong reasons not to migrate to Wayland just yet... -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.