On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 09:14:25PM +0100, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > On Sunday January 24 2021 13:48:18 A. F. Cano wrote: > > >The settings page also has a check box under "Multiscreen behavior" to > ... > If you really wanted separate focus on different screens you'd need > separate keyboards and mouses as well. I call that different terminals ;)
Ah... Ok. > >What the ideal behavior would be is that an unrelated program could not steal > >focus from the curently active window (the DVR in my case) but yet when a > >program pops up a new window (by mouse click or keyboard shortcut) the new > >window will have focus. > > > >Is this possible? > > It would probably be possible to set a specific window manager hint on > windows that are opened by explicit user actions, which window managers could > then use to ponder focus stealing prevention. Who knows, maybe such a feature > already exists in other window managers. > > There are alternative solutions, like giving back focus explicitly to the > application (and window) that had it; this could be done by charm for its > alerts. Mmm... Charm has limited options, but one is "Enable idle detection", which I unchecked. No more pop-ups that steal focus. > Have you played with focus-follows-mouse; with that you can set things up > such that the window that has the mouse cursor usually (or always) has focus. That is another option, given that mythtv blanks the mouse pointer after about 5 seconds when it's on it, but getting rid of the original problem (the charm pop-up window) seems more elegant. > >Shouldn't there be a difference between totally unrelated > >programs stealing focus and a window that appears in response to a mouse > >click > >in the same program? > > Possibly, but the window manager needs additional information to tell the > 2 apart, and sometimes you don't want that behaviour. A kwallet password > dialog should always open in front, for instance (and those are posted by > the kwallet daemon, so not by the application that needs the password). Ah yes. I have encoutered that issue. It was a long time ago so I don't remember all the details, but a window requesting a password popped up, grabbed focus and wouldn't let go. There was no option to make it go away without entering the proper password, which I didn't remember, and clicking on any other window wouldn't transfer focus, so the system was unusable. I couldn't even go to a konsole to shut down. Not sure how I got out of that. Maybe I remembered the password eventually, and after that the system remembered. It was after some upgrade, possibly, and that behavior might have been corrected soon after. > ... In any case, thank you very much for taking the time to respond. Augustine
