Comment 9 for bug 67476

Setting the "focus_new_windows" key to "strict" has fixed this problem for me (at least with update-manager--haven't tried much else as yet). Has anything been decided on what to do in future? This really is an extremely annoying "feature" and dangerous to boot. As others have noted, it's not that uncommon for windows to pop up and steal focus right as I'm trying to type a password. It has happened more than once to me.