[maximus] please prevent applications from stealing focus

[Martin-Éric Racine]

Maximus lets applications steal the focus. This is extremely undesirable, since it can easily result in keystrokes ending up where they don't belong and e.g. end up with the user typing a password in a window other than the one intended. Thus, it would be desirable for Maximus to not let applications ever steal the focus by default and instead attract the user's attention to alerts, etc. e.g. by flickering a taskbar item via the wnck applet.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: maximus 0.4.14-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jul 4 19:38:01 2011
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fi_FI:fi_FI.UTF-8:fi
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: maximus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2009-09-14 (658 days ago)

[Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk)]

Is this implementable at all?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Steven McPhillips (steven-mcphillips)]

This is still an issue (I'm on Linux Mint 13, which is pretty much Ubuntu 12.04) - given this task is still "new" after a year, can it be assumed the maintainer is no longer maintaining this project?