[compiz] focus prevention in compiz vs. metacity

[Elijah Newren]

On 1/23/07, David Reveman <davidr at novell.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 12:03 +0100, dragoran wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I am using the current git compiz and noticed the new focus preventing
> > feature.
> > It works fine but:
> > Metacity marks the new window as new (by blinking in the taskbar, and
> > removing this state after the window is opened) while compiz does not do
> > this (=user may not notice the new opened window).
> > Any plans to add this feature to compiz?
>
> Sure, I guess we should just add the demands attention hint to windows
> that are prevented from stealing focus. Or what is metacity doing?

That's precisely what metacity and kwin do.