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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE Window Focus Behaviour
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2004-07-01 2:42:57
Message-ID: 40E37A31.6030909 () acm ! org
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AR User wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> After messing around with the Focus level (Normal, High, Medium, etc.), 
> I found that I, personally, need another setting.  Bear with me.  :-)
> 
> This focus setting would only allow the current application to take the 
> keyboard focus away.  Since Konsole doesn't open any other windows 
> without human intervention, this would allow me to type in my commands 
> without worrying that another application will receive my 'rm -rf /*', 
> or, worse, my passwords from ssh.  For example:
> 
> 1. Open Konsole
> 2. ssh somesystem
> 3. Background application pops up an input "chat" window
> 4. At 100 wpm, I type in the password and press enter, but the chat 
> window has stolen focus mid-keypress!
> 
> I've set the focus level to "high", but then here's something bothersome:
> 
> 1. Open Thunderbird
> 2. Use an e-mail server that requires passwords for both incoming and 
> outgoing e-mail (starting to be the norm. these days)
> 3. Check mail (prompts for password, doesn't give focus)
> 4. Compose a new message.
> 5. Compose a second message.
> 6. Send the first message
> 
> By this time, the screen (even at 1600x1200) is full of windows, and the 
> password prompt for sending mail is hidden, much less focused.  So I 
> turn the focus level back to "low" because I want the password prompt 
> within Mozilla to focus.  But then I have the first problem.  :-)
> 
> If I'm in Mozilla, Mozilla has the right to take my keyboard focus -- it 
> knows its own state.  If I'm in Konsole, no other application should 
> wrest focus from the keyboard, period.
> 
> Whew.  Okay, any ideas on how I can go about changing this behaviour?

Do you mean that you want something higher than high?  KDE-3.2.3 has: "Extreme".

My problem is the opposite.  Even with it set at: "None" some windows (New GIMP 
windows and start up of KSysGuard) fail to activate.

--
JRT
 
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