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--- Comment #27 from r...@alum.mit.edu ---
This isn't the first report of this kind of problem -- see 352647.
At least from my perspective, "new windows get activated only if no window is
currently active or if they belong to the currently active application" should
mean "the panel is active, and the application launcher is a child of it, so it
gets focus". Never mind that the panel may not formally be a window; it
certainly looks like one and otherwise acts like one.
The limitation of not being usable without a mouse focus policy is irrelevant
to me, and no doubt many others. I always use mouse focus. I'm from the old
days of X10 (yep, the predecessor to X11), and the only window manager of the
time, xwm, was what we'd call focus strictly under mouse. I don't particularly
work in the paradigm of staying concentrated on one thing for a while, then
switching neatly to something else. I'm a lot more chaotic in my working
style, constantly zipping back and forth between things, but I want that to be
under *my* control, rather than that of whatever application decides to pop a
window.
Focus stealing prevention is really, really important. As it stands, even at
high it *still* isn't perfect; there are situations where a LibreOffice window
on another virtual desktop no less will grab focus. This is problematic, since
I have at least one document where some things take several minutes to run (in
particular, I have a spreadsheet that's so big and complex that merely editing
an alias (name) or saving the document takes multiple minutes, and at a few
points along the way LibreOffice decides to help itself to the focus, which on
a few occasions has resulted in stray keystrokes going to it). Medium is
useless; way too many steals get through.
Is it possible to write an exception rule to the effect of "all windows created
by a click on the panel or by a right mouse click on the desktop, get focus"?
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