Please refer to Understanding GNOME Shell’s focus stealing prevention – GNOME Shell & Mutter
The “stealing focus prevention” of Gnome does steal me the focus to my App currently in focus, e.g.: 5 min. ago, opened a html-file via double-click, firefox will be popup in foreground.
With ctrl-f get no “search-Box”, instead the address box of nautilius, the file-manager not visible, will be edit by me, with the given search string.
Which application did steal the focus of firefox, it is the “Gnome 46 stealing focus prevention” mechanism, it does not recognize the focus of the user, it is has to be all ways the visible app.
“Unfortunately the current situation with smart as the default means that we’re not getting most of the benefits of focus stealing prevention. Apps are able to spawn a new window over your current one and grab keyboard focus, because the smart mode just gives the new window focus, …”(refer to given link)
“Apps are able to spawn a new window over your current one and grab keyboard focus, …”
Yes, of course, a double click on a html-file spawn a new window, over nautilus, my current one, and grab keyboard focus, yes, that is my intention if I open a html-file via doubleclick and search via ctrl-f.
But this will be prevented by the “Gnome 46, stealing focus prevention”, it does mean Gnome prevent the user for normal work, what a mess !
Also I must say, if someone would have installed an “focus stealing app”, what would someone do ? Search for prevention, surely not !!
Surely he would reflect the source from where he has installed the app, and if he is not totally stupid, he would also remove the app.
It seems to me “a stealing prevention app”, did by Gnome 46, it is the same idea to prevent the result of virus SW, instead of scold the user who did installed the SW.
Or is it a Linux database known, from where this SW can be installed (universe, snap store, …)?