[Solved] Re: Balsa 2.4.8 auto-raise and auto-focus

["Mark A. Flacy" <mflacy verizon net>]

On 12/03/2010 07:11:08 AM, peterbloomfield wrote:
> Hi Paweł,
>
> --- On Fri, 12/3/10, Paweł Sałek <pawsa0 gmail com> wrote:
>
> > From: Paweł Sałek <pawsa0 gmail com>
> > Subject: Re: Balsa 2.4.8 auto-raise and auto-focus
> > To: balsa-list gnome org
> > Date: Friday, December 3, 2010, 1:37 AM
> > On 12/02/2010 04:55:05 PM, Mark A.
> > Flacy wrote:
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > This is driving me insane.  Every time a new
> > e-mail comes in, balsa de-iconifies and grabs the mouse
> > focus which interrupts what I am doing.
> > >
> > > I'm running FVWM2 as my window manager on top of Gnome
> > and I cannot find any configuration in FVWM2 that would be
> > causing this.  I've turned off all inbound message
> > alert options that I can find in balsa.  I'm ready to
> > dump balsa if I cannot find a fix (I got interrupted while
> > typing this message, for crying out loud.).
> >
> > Do you use your own balsa build? Balsa does not do it on
> > its own, that is certain. I wonder however whether this is
> > caused by eg. libnotify library...
>
> Balsa uses gtk_window_set_urgency_hint() to alert the user to new  
> mail, and I'm guessing that FVWM2 implements that in the way that  
> Mark describes.  The gtk docs are silent about implementation;  
> metacity makes the Balsa button in the bottom panel a pulsing blue  
> color and puts it on the current workspace, which gets your attention  
> but is still relatively inconspicuous.

To follow up on my other reply (which hasn't processed through the list  
server yet):

I believe my previous idea about what was wrong was, umm, wrong.

As it so happens, fvwm2 has support for the urgency hint.  The default  
for *that* is to de-Iconify the window, give it focus as if you clicked  
on it, raise it, and move the viewport to show it.  Which also  
describes what I was seeing.

I changed the function responsible for doing the above (UrgencyFunc) to  
do nothing and now Balsa doesn't jump into my face when mail comes in.   
(If I feel like it, I can adjust that fvwm function to do something  
specific for Balsa.)

My comment in the other e-mail still applies with the added caveat that  
this can be easily fixed in fvwm's user configuration, so this is not a  
Balsa problem or misuse of gtk_window_set_urgency_hint().  At the most,  
I would ask for  a comment about Balsa using the urgency hint for  
incoming mail somewhere in the documentation; I think that it would  
have helped me figure this out without bothering the list.


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Mark A. Flacy