[plug] Window Priority

[Carl Gherardi]

On 16/09/2004, at 5:46 AM, Onno Benschop wrote:

> How do I stop dialogs from other applications popping up over the top 
> of
> the current application. Specifically, if I'm typing and a dialog comes
> up, and I happen to hit enter to make a new line in the text, it closes
> the dialog.
>
> This behaviour of "hijacking" the current user input really really
> annoys me.
>
> Debian, Gnome 2.6, sawfish 1.3

I get around that problem using multiple workspaces, anything that can 
provide popups goes in its own workspace.

Having window focus follow the mouse gets around it aswell unless you 
are unlucky.

Carl