-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-08-21 at 11:15 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 13:35 +0200, Clayton wrote:
I start up applications in Gnome, and continue working on/in another application (eg a document or an email)... when the app I started finally surfaces, it steals the focus and I end up typing a whack of stuff into the new application. I guess I am too impatient. In KDE I can set it to start apps in the background and it works perfectly. I have yet to find such a setting in this Gnome thing.
I also have that problem.
Which applications in particular are stealing focus?
Openoffice is a typical one, because it can take a minute to start. But it happens with all of them.
Which window manager are you using (Metacity or Compiz)?
cer@nimrodel:~> ps afx | grep "metacit" 5592 ? Ss 4:44 metacity --sm-save-file 1177092186-32076-3020439348.ms
Metacity prevents focus stealing by default, but it depends on applications following certain conventions (otherwise it's not possible to reliably prevent focus stealing).
Technical details:
1. You start an application.
2. If you don't do anything with the existing windows, the new app's window will appear on top and get the focus. I.e. if you just wait for the app to start, it will appear on top as expected.
3. If you did anything with the existing windows (click on them, type on them, etc.) the new app will appear in the background and it will not get the focus. I.e. if you are busy while the app starts, it will not interrupt you when its window appears.
Nope. Not true. I go to the workspace number 5, and start up Openoffice with a big file. As soon as I see the first welcome screen, a switch to workspace #1, and continue working there. Suddenly, OOo grabs the focus back to WS#5. I go back to #1, and I'm pulled back to #5, several times during the loading process. This has been reported months or years ago here, it is a known behavior. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGy4BHtTMYHG2NR9URAqL0AJ9kgfqMy16nic4dwxcWmym3y1DItgCeLHCn sYLHc5RGo/s68KVKegBCFOU= =qbEw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org