Re: [STUMP] Pidgin's autofocus?]

[Bob Farrell]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:19:50PM -0500, Philip M. White wrote:
> 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?
> 
> -- 
> Philip
> 
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Someone not so long ago was complaining about Firefox and friends having
a similiar "feature" wherein clicking the window will give that frame
focus without asking nicely. I would guess this is Pidgin being a PITA.

AFAIK real men use bitlbee, so perhaps that would help. ;-)

I guess the only thing to do (assuming this isn't a bug in StumpWM)
would be to find a hacky workaround. And I doubt it's a bug in StumpWM.
-- 
Bob Farrell