I could be wrong, but I believe that was fixed with gnome 2.10 (
FC4t1+). Metacity/gnome now does not preempt focus on new windows.
They are also working on a theme friendly was for the window hint urgent
to be seen by the user ( please no bouncing icons ).
Cheers,
Eric
Otto J. Makela wrote:
On basic Fedora Core 3 gnome (using the Metacity window
damager), and traditional focus-follows-mouse, how does one
prevent the focus from changing when a new window is opened?
At least for me, the principle of least astonishment is
continuously broken when a newly opened window grabs the focus
from right under my mouse pointer (and I need to move the
pointer out of my window and then back in to regain it).
piglet:~% uname -a
Linux
piglet.otto.net 2.6.10-1.770_FC3smp #1 SMP Thu Feb 24 14:20:06 EST 2005
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
piglet:~% rpm -q xorg-x11 metacity
xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.FC3.13_2.rhfc3.at
metacity-2.8.6-2
piglet:~% cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg)