Comment # 3 on bug 1194809 from Martin Wilck

(In reply to Frederic Crozat from comment #1)
> 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)
> https://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/9205

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...