Keeping focused to the same window no matter what happens

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2011/12/26 Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au>:
> On 26/12/11 21:29, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
>>
>> 2011/12/26 Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>:
>>>
>>> On 26/12/11 20:40, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Den 25 december 2011 22:55 skrev Conny Enström<uncurbed at swipnet.se>:
>>>>>
>>>>> 2011-12-25 22:16, Johnny Rosenberg skrev:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Is this possible? How?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Maybe I should try to explain what I'm actually asking for:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In all operating systems I've tried so far in my life (Windows 98-XP,
>>>>>> Ubuntu 7.04-11.10, Mandriva 2008.0-2009.0, Mint etc), there is one
>>>>>> thing that annoys me a lot. Let's say that I just started up the
>>>>>> operating system. Then I click a few icons to start a few applications
>>>>>> that I usually need for the things I use to do. It's generally a web
>>>>>> browser (Opera in my case), a spreadsheet application (LibreOffice
>>>>>> Calc for instance) and maybe something more. Of course one of the
>>>>>> applications, let's say Opera, are finished starting up before the
>>>>>> others and I start to work with it. A few seconds later another
>>>>>> application, let's say LibreOffice Calc, is ready to go. What happens
>>>>>> then is that what I was typing in Opera is typed into LibreOffice Calc
>>>>>> instead.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there some way to prevent this from happening? I am supposed to be
>>>>>> the one who decides which window should be in focus on my system, not
>>>>>> the operating system or any of the applications. Is there a setting
>>>>>> somewhere that I missed?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Kind regards
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Johnny Rosenberg
>>>>>> ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ
>>>>>>
>>>>> kanske detta/ Maybe this:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://askubuntu.com/questions/20989/how-do-i-tell-a-start-up-program-to-start-minimized
>>>>
>>>> Maybe as a solution if nothing else works (nödlösning…), but I don't
>>>> want it minimized, I just want it keeping behind the current window
>>>> until I decide to use it.
>>>> A really nice thing would be if I could start different applications
>>>> on different virtual desktops, still keeping the focus at what I am
>>>> currently doing.
>>>>
>>>> Actually I'm quite surprised that this isn't the standard behaviour as
>>>> default (keeping focus on what the user is currently doing), because
>>>> does really anyone want to be interrupted by a newly opened
>>>> application?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Vänliga hälsningar
>>>>
>>>> Johnny Rosenberg
>>>> ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I can  only guess that you are using either Unity or Gnome 3 or
>>> poor-man's
>>> Gnome
>>
>> Ubuntu 10.10 at the moment, so yes, it's Gnome 2.
>>
>>> because I am using KDE and at them moment I have 6 desktops/workspaces
>>> and each one contains a running application - eg, Thunderbird, Firefox, a
>>> Game, LibreOffice, mc (Midnight Commander), and vlc (was watching
>>> Futurama a
>>> few minutes ago on TV).
>>
>> Well, I have 16 workspaces (setup via Compiz-Fusion) and the most
>> common is that I use 3 or 4 of those, maybe 1-3 different applications
>> on each one, so it's not exactly the same as yours but fairly similar.
>>
>>> All running and none interfere with the other. I
>>> simply switch between them as I want.
>>
>> I do that too. No problems at all.
>>
>>> Isn't this what you are wanting to do? If so then switch to KDE - simple.
>>
>> Yes, I do that all the time without any kinds of problems, EXCEPT the
>> one that I described (or failed to describe?) earlier.
>>
>> Maybe you understand my problem very accurately, but to be sure, try
>> the example below in your situation and tell me what happens:
>>
>> 1. Run everything that you usually run, just like always, except
>> LibreOffice.
>> 2. If you have an icon on your desktop for a LibreOffice document,
>> spreadsheet or whatever, preferably a huge one, click (or double
>> click, depending on your settings) it to open it with LibreOffice.
>> 3. Since it takes a while to open LibreOffice from scratch, especially
>> with a huge document, go back to one of your other windows and
>> continue working there.
>> 4. When LibreOffice is finally running and the document is loaded,
>> does it not take focus from what you were doing?
>>
>> In my case it even opens on my current workspace even if I was on
>> another workspace when clicking the icon.
>
>
> Do you have a similar menu for each application in Gnome 2 which you are
> using?:
>
> http://picpaste.com/snapshot1-8129WbEn.png
>
> In KDE you can control how an application behaves, and the above menu is to
> found in the topmost lefthand corner of the application's "taskbar".
>
>
> BC
>

Thanks for the tip. That made me think again. Finally I seem to have found it:
System → Preferences → Compiz Config System Manager → General → Focus
& Raise Behaviour → Focus Prevention Level: Very High (or High or at
least not Low) or edit the Focus Prevention Windows field.


Seems to work, otherwise I guess it needs some fine tuning.


Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg
ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ