Bug 6998

Summary: Compiz: Should not let windows steal focus.
Product: xorg Reporter: Bjørn Haagensen <bhaagensen>
Component: App/compizAssignee: David Reveman <reveman>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: high    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:

Description Bjørn Haagensen 2006-05-22 23:57:58 UTC 
Focus behavior is a difficult topic, I'm aware. I just think that letting
windows steal focus is to say the least: a questionable feature. 

One of my favorite arguments against is the one where you're about to type in
your pw to start an ssh-session, while at the same time you receive a message on
icq using gaim. Gaim windows gets focus and and if you dont't notice that,
you're pw ends up being sent to whoever wrote you on icq. A thing which should
not be possible due to automatic behavior.
Comment 1 Daniel Stone 2007-02-27 01:32:08 UTC 
Sorry about the phenomenal bug spam, guys.  Adding xorg-team@ to the QA contact so bugs don't get lost in future.
Comment 2 Danny Baumann 2007-08-17 00:14:40 UTC 
Compiz HEAD now has a focus stealing prevention match that allows to configure which windows should not steal focus.

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