Preventing focus stealing in an application

[Michael Thayer <michael thayer oracle com>]

Hello,

A practical question regarding focus stealing.  VirtualBox creates quite
a few top-level windows as message boxes to pass on warnings or
information to the user.  With Metacity (Compiz too; haven't tried
Mutter and KWin seems unaffected), those message boxes always annoyingly
go right to the top of the window stack and grab the input focus from
whatever window had it just before.  Setting NET_WM_USER_TIME to zero
(double checked with "xprop" on the newly created window) doesn't seem
to help.  Does anyone have an idea what might be causing this?

Regards and thanks,

Michael
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