Re: [STUMP] Pidgin's autofocus?

[Shawn]

"Philip M. White" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I run Pidgin in a dedicated stumpwm group.  About a second or two after
> the main window opens, Pidgin refocuses itself (or whatever the proper
> term is) and causes stumpwm to jump to its group without my consent.
>
> More in detail: I create a new group, then exec pidgin using "^T !".  I
> split the frame vertically.  Then Pidgin takes anywhere from half a
> second to a few seconds to connect to all the services.  Meanwhile, I
> switch to another group to continue some other activity.  When Pidgin
> finishes connecting, it does something to make stumpwm re-display its
> group.  Then I must manually return to where I was.  It's quite annoying
> especially when I am typing something into another window.
>
> I admit I'm lazier than I could be -- I've not reviewed Pidgin's code to
> see exactly what GTK calls it makes at that time.  I am hoping someone
> on this mailing list will know off the top of their head exactly what's
> happening.
>
> Is stumpwm complying with some standard for doing so, or is this a bug?

It's quite likely that pidgeon is making a request to be raised which
by default stumpwm respects. You should be able to customize
*deny-raise-request* to deny such requests.

-Shawn