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

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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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[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

As far as I’m aware, Wayland apps can only “steal” focus by going through the proper channel, the xdg activation protocol.

Or maybe it’s a bug with Gnome 43?

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

That's still stealing focus. I want it to literally never happen.

And it doesn't do it properly for me either. Starting from the command line with a delay (how I test it) still steals focus when I'm focused on a completely different application.

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