Hi Sebastien, I am using unity, but the dialog I get is not the (rather small) one used by gksudo. That one gets the focus as it should. Here I see a dialog that seems unique to gnome-control-center (why doesn't it use the gksudo mechanism anyway?) I am attaching a screenshot of this dialog (strangely it has has *some* german text, whereas my whole UI is in english). I didn't manage to show it without focus :-)
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