I use KDE 3.5.10 on PClinuxOS. Whenever I launch an application it always appears above any currently open windows, even if I'm using them. I'd like to find a way of launching the new application in the background and prevent it from stealing the window focus from my current application. I'm sure did this on my other computer (KDE 3.4 on Mandriva), but I can't remember how!

I don't want to have to launch applications minimized, and I don't want to have to use kstart or change the window settings manually for every single application, I just want to alter a global setting somewhere which will mean that the current window's focus is not stolen by default.

Any ideas?

Try to change focus stealing prevention level. You should find it if you right click on the window title bar -> Configure Window Behavior... -> Focus -> Focus stealing prevention level. (I'm on 4.3.4 so it could be somewhere else in you version, but if I remember correctly it should be something like that on 3.5.10 as well).

Hans wrote:Try to change focus stealing prevention level. You should find it if you right click on the window title bar -> Configure Window Behavior... -> Focus -> Focus stealing prevention level. (I'm on 4.3.4 so it could be somewhere else in you version, but if I remember correctly it should be something like that on 3.5.10 as well).

Great! It works! Thank you Hans.

(In fact I couldn't find the Focus Stealing Prevention Level setting, so I edited the .kde/share/config/kwinrc file and changed FocusStealingPreventionLevel to 4.)

jake_voelcker wrote:Great! It works! Thank you Hans.

(In fact I couldn't find the Focus Stealing Prevention Level setting, so I edited the .kde/share/config/kwinrc file and changed FocusStealingPreventionLevel to 4.)

Haha, that's another way to do it. Could you please mark the topic as solved by clicking on under the post with the answer?