Certainly Greg. The two I now use most often are xfwm (in Xfce4) and fvwm. As has already been stated by another member of the list, you can turn off focus-stealing in Xfce4 by going to Window Manager Settings and unchecking the "Automatically give focus to newly created windows" checkbox. In fvwm you can turn off focus-stealing by putting this in your fvwm config file (commonly ~/.fvwm/.fvwm2rc): Style * GrabFocusOff ----- Original message ----- From: "greg wm" <tclug at greatlakedata.com> To: "Isaac Atilano" <aristophrenic at warpmail.net> Cc: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 23:30:26 -0500 Subject: Re: [tclug-list] focus interruptus might you care to share any of the respective self-respecting details/clues? (in twm new windows await a click before receiving focus, unless the RandomPlacement option was given.) Isaac Atilano wrote: > Any self-respecting wm is able to do this. > > From: "greg wm" <tclug at greatlakedata.com> >> twm because of the tiny footprint, versatile icon placement, and >> recovery of screen RE. > o&i forgot to mention, twm is the only wm i'm aware allows me to > (mostly) prevent new windows from stealing focus until i'm ready. have > you never been typing along, only to have a popup arrive, and get > dismissed quicker than a blink by whatever you were typing? twm allows > that a new window won't set until i click. lemme know if i'm missing > something, otherwise after all these years i remain amazed this gap > still remains in the prevalent window paradigm.