Comment 0 for bug 387599
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| Briggs (acidbriggs) wrote X allowing background applications to grab window focus. | #0 |
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Take for instance launching an application (GUI) that take time to load. Start that process, then open a terminal. Start working in that terminal. When the long loading application finally appears it will gain focus. If that application pops up any dialogs, they will grab focus. This is incredibly annoying and a security flaw (IMHO), since it can grab text from another application (such as a password) and have it displayed on the screen. Tt can cause a user to input information that they did not intend.
Plus, this is just annoying. I know it exists in KDE and in GNOME. It's an X thing I believe. But, it just isn't the behavior anyone expects.