Brandon Allbery writes:

On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Javran Cheng wrote:

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I'm wondering what is the proper way of handling some "request focus" events, I have some scenario here:

If you have EwmhDesktops configured (including by using XMonad.Config.Desktop as your base config, or one of its descendants such as XMonad.Config.Xfce or XMonad.Config.Gnome) then we handle the EWMH focus request message.

Many people do not like it when their browser demands focus (Firefox and Chrome are both happy to demand focus when some other program has focus, instead of only when they are switching focus from one of their windows to another), so we do not force support for the EWMH focus change message by default as this would make it very difficult to turn off.

I positively hate that Firefox, if visible on the other screen, steals focus from my MUA when I click on some URL which Firefox opens. How could I get rid of this? My config is basically: main = do xmproc <- spawnPipe "xmobar /home/wferi/.xmonad/xmobar.hs" xmonad $ withUrgencyHook NoUrgencyHook $ defaultConfig { terminal = "urxvt", manageHook = composeAll [logNewWindows, manageHook defaultConfig, manageDocks, title =? "Audio Settings" --> doFloat], layoutHook = smartBorders $ avoidStruts $ layoutHook defaultConfig, logHook = dynamicLogWithPP $ sjanssenPP { ppOutput = hPutStrLn xmproc, ppUrgent = xmobarColor "red" "" } } `additionalKeysP` [ ("M-S-l", spawn "sleep 1; xset dpms force off; xtrlock") ] logNewWindows :: ManageHook logNewWindows = do wt <- title wr <- appName wc <- className io . putStrLn . concat $ ["new window ",wr,"/",wc," \"",wt,"\""] idHook -- Thanks, Feri.

On 2013-17-12, Ferenc Wagner wrote:

I positively hate that Firefox, if visible on the other screen, steals focus from my MUA when I click on some URL which Firefox opens. How could I get rid of this?

Did you set Firefox' browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground setting to true in about:config? Apart from not selecting the new tab in the Firefox window it also prevents Firefox from grabbing the window manager focus.