On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 05:23:20PM -0800, Miles Lane wrote:
The most aggrevating example, though, is when I start ANY application from gnome-terminal (emacs, amarok, firefox, whatever). I now have to click on the application window to give it focus. I hate this! I, personally, think it is brain-dead to not give focus to applications when they start (with the exception of dialogs which should be "system modal" in Windows parlance).
What if you start something in the background in your shell? GNOME has no way to know whether you just typed "emacs" or "emacs &". In the latter case you don't necessarily want the focus transferred to Emacs.
Anyway, do you do anything with gnome-terminal or any other program after you start the application, but before its window actually opens? Metacity's focus-stealing prevention is supposed to kick in only if you interact with anything else after you started the application - the new window then will not grab the focus. It's not supposed to be unconditional, unless there's a bug that ought to be reported. What happens if you enter "emacs" and keep your hands away from the mouse and the keyboard?