Any way to prevent focus stealing on GNOME 43? (lemmy.today)

submitted 2 weeks ago by LodeMike@lemmy.today to c/gnome@discuss.tchncs.de

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Please don't tell me to set any dconf settings. I've already tried all of them and they do jack shit.

I'm on Debian in 12, which has GNOME 43. I never want Windows to steal focus for any reason. Is there an extension or something that can do this?

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[-] BuccaneerScientist@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago

Did you set focus stealing protection to strict? And verify the applikation isn't running through xwayland?

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yes. Should I restart my shell? Disable Xwayland temporarily

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