Which applications in particular are stealing focus?
All of them :-( Daily I use Firefox (latest), Thunderbird (latest), StarOffice, The Gimp etc etc.
Which window manager are you using (Metacity or Compiz)?
Metacity I assume... definitely not Compiz.
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.
Ok, that I understand and expect.
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.
This is definitely not happening. It's not the fastest computer in the world so app launch takes a couple seconds. Typical scenario... I'm writing an email and decide to start a Firefox browser or launch StarOffice. I click the icon to launch and go back to my email.. typing away (I type relatively quickly) and the application pops up on top of my email message and the last few words I've typed appear in the document or in the location bar. This happens all the time.. thus my frustration levels :-) If I work from home, I work in KDE... same tasks, same applications... no applications stealing focus... it's the default setting in KDE Settings > Desktop > Window Specific Settings as of KDE 3.5.2... specifically for Mozilla based applications, and OpenOffice.org. I just come to expect a certain level of performance from my Window manager and I never seem to get it with Gnome.. maybe because I'm a tinkerer and Gnome is anti-tinkerer in a big way. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org