Comment 18 for bug 54127

Example 1: Plugging in a USB stick just caused a window to steal focus.

How to reproduce.

1 Open a browser, go to favourite search engine, start typing in search box.
2 Insert USB stick.
3 Continue typing in browsers search box..
4 After a short pause Nautilus is opened and steals focus. Keystrokes go to Nautilus instead of browser search box.

The behaviour I expected.

1 Newly opened Nautilus is opened in a background window and does not steal focus.

The behaviour I encountered.

1 Nautilus stole the focus and my keystrokes were assimilated by its "type ahead" function.

Reproducible:

1 Always

Example 2: Update Manger steals focus.

How to reproduce.

1 Open text editor start typing some text.
2 Run Update Manager, install updates.
3 Return to text editor continue typing.
4 After a short pause Update Manager will steal focus.

The behaviour I expected.

1 Update manager will work in the background and will wait for me to manually return focus to it.

The behaviour I encountered.

1 Update manager stole the focus

Reproducible:

1 Always.

This has become a general problem with Gnome application behaviour that needs addressing as a Gnome wide problem.