[Pidgin] #975: XMPP login box is a focus thief

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#975: XMPP login box is a focus thief
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  Reporter:  ArunRaghavan  |       Owner:  rlaager            
      Type:  defect        |      Status:  reopened           
  Priority:  minor         |   Milestone:  2.1.1              
 Component:  pidgin (gtk)  |     Version:  2.0                
Resolution:                |    Keywords:  focus, login window
   Pending:  0             |  
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Comment (by ArunRaghavan):

 Replying to [comment:3 deryni]:
 > That's the way the 'pending' status works, if we request comments from
 the poster and they fail
 > to respond the bug gets closed after two weeks because the chances of
 the poster coming back
 > are slim-to-none. I will re-open the bug (as Sean stated he intends to
 work on this or at least
 > deputized Richard to work on it =) but notice that I asked a question of
 you and you failed to
 > answer it, which is why the pending kicked in. I am still certain that
 the problem here is not


 deryni: Thanks for reopening this. I do understand that it is painful to
 have a lot of open bugs lying around with no resolution in sight. The
 reason I thought it was unreasonable to close the ticket is that I really
 have no way of being notified when something changes. Is there some way to
 enable these? If not, should I file a bug requesting that TracNotification
 be enabled?


 > ours but rather your window manager/desktop environments insisting to
 focus newly created
 > windows and that a less damaged environment would allow you to have the
 password windows *not*
 > be given focus.


 I agree that the Metacity behaviour is not nearly ideal. I wasn't able to
 find any way to tackle the focus problem by tweaking settings (but I
 didn't really try fooling around with gconf settings etc.). Considering
 that Gnome+Metacity is not really a minority DE, changing the DE isn't
 really a feasible solution to the problem.

 BTW, what WM would you recommend which tackles this problem elegantly (and
 how _does_ it tackle this)?

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