Comment 20 for bug 54741

I agree with Koresko's points. Especially with the part where you accidentally close unread dialogs by continue typing whatever you were about to type without noticing the dialog in the first place. This has happened to me a lot of times before. The same holds for typing ssh-passwords into newly created windows.

I really like the sleep 5;xterm example. This is a thing that should definitely be addressed by the window manager. I see no situation where it would be desirable to steal focus while the user is typing. I think that one second should be enough for most cases when not using "focus follows mouse".

I agree with the others that focus should never be stolen when "focus follows mouse" is enabled, though.