[plug] Alert Windows

[Onno Benschop]

Russell Steicke wrote:

>On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 04:14:21PM +1100, Onno Benschop wrote:
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>>>>How can I stop alerts from coming up above all windows and stealing the 
>>>>focus, when I was doing something else, like hitting return to create a 
>>>>paragraph break, but instead resulting in a closed alert with who knows 
>>>>what kind of text...
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>>   Gnome v 2.8
>>   Sawfish v 1.3
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>On my debian desktop: Applications -> Desktop Preferences -> Windows,
>then select the Focus tab, turn off "Focus on application windows when
>they first appear".  This seems to apply to all windows, not just
>dialogs that have a parent.  I remember that a few years ago sawfish
>(perhaps it was still called sawmill then) used to let you distinguish
>between top level windows and dialog boxes, but it doesn't seem to do
>that any more.
>
That is exactly what I needed, tah.

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