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) > >
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