Re: Preventing windows from grabbing the focus
Tuomo Valkonen <[email protected]>
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On 2008-08-19, Peter Romianowski <[email protected]> wrote: > It would be great if I could just disable the focus request. Is this > possible? I already searched the web, the documentation and the > newsgroups for hours and hours but could not find a hint. Unfortunately, focus change is not a "request", unlike geometry change. Geometry changes get forwarded for the WM to act upon, and according to the ICCCM, it can do as it pleases, and the app must not fight back. (Many do, these days!) Focus change messages are acted upon by the server, and are honoured when they can be (i.e. the window is visible, no active grabs, and so). AFAIK ICCCM does not discuss whether the WM is allowed to overrule such changes by switching focus back. -- Tuomo