Comment #106 on issue 177 by james.r...@gmail.com: xmonad does not follow ICCCM and ignores WM_TAKE_FOCUS protocol http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=177
James, would you mind to post your xmonad setup?
See attached xmonad.hs. I installed xmonad and XMonadContrib directly from a darcs checkout. Here's the steps I took (assumes ghci, cabal, and darcs installed). darcs get http://haskell.org/xmonad cd xmonad && darcs apply ~/Downloads/track-currently-processing-event.dpatch # from comment 33 cabal install cd .. && darcs get http://haskell.org/XMonadContrib cd XMonadContrib && sed -i -e '/XMonad.Hooks.ICCCMFocus/d' xmonad-contrib.cabal cabal install I confirmed it by running xmonad --recompile with the old "import XMonad.Hooks.ICCCMFocus" line in my xmonad.hs - it should error. Remove the import and 'logHook = takeTopFocus' and it should work. Attachments: xmonad.hs 9.9 KB