Fvwm, only relevant configuration:
Style "Pidgin" Sticky
(plus other sensible defaults like focus-follows-mouse, no AutoRaise or
anything silly like that)
I long ago set a plugin option to disable pidgin setting new notifications
because it was so unusable (though this means I don't get notified anymore
other than a tiny little icon on a window that's usually lowered, so on
the whole jabber has become mostly useless to me). I think the option
was:
tools->plugins->message notification->"present conversation window"
("raise conversation window" would have already been off by default).
I'm pretty sure "Set window manager URGENT hint" was already off by
default. I might expect URGENT to focus a window, and I'd definitely
expect that without it, a new window popped up would just follow the
window manager policy for focus, which in my case, doesn't steal
focus or warp the mouse pointer.
Here's message notification plugin's prefs as they now are:
<pref version='1' name='/'>
<pref name='plugins'>
<pref name='gtk'>
<pref name='X11'>
<pref name='notify'>
<pref name='type_im' type='bool'
value='1'/>
<pref name='type_chat' type='bool'
value='1'/>
<pref name='type_chat_nick' type='bool'
value='0'/>
<pref name='type_focused' type='bool'
value='0'/>
<pref name='method_string' type='bool'
value='0'/>
<pref name='title_string' type='string'
value='(*)'/>
<pref name='method_urgent' type='bool'
value='0'/>
<pref name='method_count' type='bool'
value='1'/>
<pref name='method_count_xprop'
type='bool' value='1'/>
<pref name='method_raise' type='bool'
value='0'/>
<pref name='method_present' type='bool'
value='0'/>
<pref name='notify_focus' type='bool'
value='0'/>
<pref name='notify_click' type='bool'
value='0'/>
<pref name='notify_type' type='bool'
value='1'/>
<pref name='notify_send' type='bool'
value='1'/>
<pref name='notify_switch' type='bool'
value='1'/>
<pref name='type_im_sys' type='bool'
value='0'/>
<pref name='type_chat_sys' type='bool'
value='0'/>
</pref>
I'm not currently in a position to test setting method_raise back on, or
checking what the defaults are, because our jabber server is broken for
unrelated reasons.
> From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de>
>
> I have been using Pidgin for years and I never observed this behavior on any
> desktop or window manager. Whenever I received a new message (currently using
> KDE), the systray icon changes to indicate a new message. But the cursor focus
> remains unchanged.
>
> Could you give a bit more detail on your environment, particularly which
> desktop
> or window manager you are using? I suspect an issue with your particular
> setup.
>
>
> Package: pidgin
> Followup-For: Bug #844285
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
>
> * What led up to the situation?
> Read the bugreport
>
> * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
> ineffective)?
> For what it's worth. I have also been using Pidgin (on XFCE4) for years.
> Never observed the mentioned bug.
>
> * What was the outcome of this action?
> * What outcome did you expect instead?
>
> *** End of the template - remove these template lines ***
--
Tim Connors
