nev young wrote:
I am using a gnome desktop. [...] Like Ted wrote it appears that a newly opened window steals focus. It is this I want to stop. [...] Any more ideas?
The venerable WindowMaker has a preference "Automatically focus new windows" right on the first pane of its preferences dialogue. I just tested it with a Ted-style sleep 20 ; xterm command and it worked. So I think this is a window manager configuration problem. Probably there's some mistake in the Gnome interface guide which requires new windows to get focus. It wouldn't be Gnome's first mistake IMO. Hope that helps a little, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster and developer for hire at | software www.software.coop http://mjr.towers.org.uk | .... co IMO only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html | .... op