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Re: [LUG] GNOME focus?

 

On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 19:05 +0000, Grant Sewell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Why o why did GNOME move to using a registry?

You mean gconf?

>   I can't find a
> particular option anywhere! 

Not everything is handled by gconf - some things are only available in
the C APIs.

>  Anyone know where I should be looking to
> change the default behaviour of GNOME so that applications cannot take
> focus by themselves? 

This sounds like a Gtk+ function call in the program taking focus.

>  It's infuriating!  4 times whilst writing this
> email I had the Ubuntu updater tool take focus away from the email
> client.

Halt the Ubuntu updater?

System->Preferences->Sessions will allow you to halt any panel applet.

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