[openbox] Focus stealing/assigning issues (was Re: [openbox] Issues with Openbox 3.4)

[Dana Jansens]

This is actually because we're intepretting the raise as an attempt to
get attention, and giving the window focus.  See the thread about
gnuplot if you want.  This will no longer happen in the next release
though.

On 6/21/07, Brian de Alwis <bsd at cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
> On 6/10/07, Dana Jansens <danakj at orodu.net> wrote:
> > Bottom line is.. Tilda will get focus in the next release, and old/bad
> > applications can easily steal focus away while you are typing.  I hate
> > this, but yeah, I don't know what else to do.
>
> I use Gaim's message notification plugin to raise conversation windows
> on new messages.  With OB 3.3 this would just raise the window to the
> top, but with OB 3.4.2 now also leads to the focus being switched to
> the window.  I assume this change is responsible for the new
> behaviour?  Is there any way to disable it?
>
> (I haven't yet updated to pidgin; perhaps the problem is solved there)
>
> Brian.
>
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