does KDE have uninterruptible window focus yet?

[James Richard Tyrer]

lsom at bratgrrl.com wrote:
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> On Sunday 11 April 2004 3:43 pm, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
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>>lsom at bratgrrl.com wrote:
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>>>On Sunday 11 April 2004 1:53 pm, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
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>>>>lsom at bratgrrl.com wrote:
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>>>>>I searched the archives and didn't see many posts on this, except people 
>>>>>wanting this feature- does 3.2 allow you the option of setting the active 
>>>>>window to be totally uninterruptible? <snip>
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>>OK.  This feature has been refined in 3.2.2 but it isn't exactly new.
>>
>>If you click the "Menu" icon in the window's title bar and look for 
>>something like 'keep on top'.  You might have to look under: "Advanced" to 
>>find it -- this has changed several times in the last few versions.
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> 
> yes, 'sticky' windows have been around for awhile, but they do not maintain 
> focus. Focus is different than window position. You can have focus on a 
> window that's underneath another window, and type in it. Here's a simple 
> example: suppose you're typing a message in Kmail, and decide to open 
> Abiword. Even with 'always on top' toggled for Kmail, focus will shift to 
> Abiword. Kmail is on top, but your typing goes to Abiword. Same thing happens 
> with message popups. Quite annoying to have typing interrupted and goobered 
> up by some dumb lil error message from another program.
> 
> I would like to see an option that does not allow anything to take focus away 
> from the active window, make it a global option. It's been mentioned several 
> times on the lists, over the years, as a possible new KDE feature, so I was 
> hoping it had made it into 3.2.

Oh, that is a different issue.  Have you tried different focus policies? 
This might be a solution.

In the Control Center: Desktop -> Window Behavior.

Try: "Policy: Focus Follows Mouse" and uncheck: "Auto raise" & "Click raise 
active window".  You can experiment with this to see which settings you 
like best.  It ia possible that your only problem is that you don't want: 
"Auto raise".

Then you can type in which ever window the mouse is in without raising it. 
  Only disadvantage is that to raise a window, you need to click on the 
title bar.

--
JRT

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