[SOLVED] How to disable focus stealing with KDE notifications

kaifis · 2018-11-06 20:38:17

Hi,
I'm trying to get KDE working with i3. It works awesome. There is one problem though. All notifications are stealing focus. Here is the output of `xprop`:

_NET_WM_STATE(ATOM) = _NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_TASKBAR, _NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_PAGER
_NET_WM_DESKTOP(CARDINAL) = 4294967295
WM_STATE(WM_STATE):
                window state: Normal
                icon window: 0x0
I3_FLOATING_WINDOW(CARDINAL) = 1
_NET_WM_USER_TIME(CARDINAL) = 8439657
_KDE_NET_WM_SHADOW(CARDINAL) = 44040281, 44040294, 44040295, 44040296, 44040297, 44040298, 44040299, 44040300, 6, 6, 6, 6
_KDE_NET_WM_BACKGROUND_CONTRAST_REGION(_KDE_NET_WM_BACKGROUND_CONTRAST_REGION) = 0x0, 0x0, 0x1aa, 0x3e, 0x3dfe2535, 0xbc430fb5, 0xbc430fb5, 0x0, 0xbd240cba, 0x3dc480cf, 0xbd240cba, 0x0, 0xbb847cd3, 0xbb847cd3, 0x3e071faf, 0x0, 0x3e23d70b, 0x3e23d70b, 0x3e23d70b, 0x3f800000
_KDE_NET_WM_BLUR_BEHIND_REGION(CARDINAL) = 0, 0, 426, 62
_KDE_NET_WM_DESKTOP_FILE(UTF8_STRING) = "org.kde.plasmashell"
XdndAware(ATOM) = BITMAP
WM_NAME(STRING) = 
_NET_WM_NAME(UTF8_STRING) = "Plasma"
_MOTIF_WM_HINTS(_MOTIF_WM_HINTS) = 0x2, 0x1, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0
_NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE(ATOM) = _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_NOTIFICATION
_XEMBED_INFO(_XEMBED_INFO) = 0x0, 0x1
WM_CLIENT_LEADER(WINDOW): window id # 0x2a00011
WM_HINTS(WM_HINTS):
                Client accepts input or input focus: False
                Initial state is Normal State.
_NET_WM_PID(CARDINAL) = 823
_NET_WM_SYNC_REQUEST_COUNTER(CARDINAL) = 44040256
WM_CLASS(STRING) = "plasmashell", "plasmashell"
WM_PROTOCOLS(ATOM): protocols  WM_DELETE_WINDOW, WM_TAKE_FOCUS, _NET_WM_PING, _NET_WM_SYNC_REQUEST
WM_NORMAL_HINTS(WM_SIZE_HINTS):
                user specified location: 1480, 2066
                user specified size: 426 by 62
                window gravity: Static

I think that focus stealing is caused by that `WM_TAKE_FOCUS` but I cannot find any way to stop KDE sending this `WM_PROTOCOL`.
Do you have any suggestions what to try?
I've asked few guys on reddit that use i3 with KDE and their notifications do not steal focus by default.
I believe there has to be a simple switch in configs but I just cannot find it.

Last edited by kaifis (2018-11-07 13:11:00)

seth · 2018-11-06 21:14:30

You think wrong. This is merely the announcement of a supported protocol.
The WM should never pass the focus to this window, so either there's a (config?) bug in i3wm or the window takes the focus by itself.
A cause for the latter *might* be that the notification daemon starts before i3wm and believes there's no WM because either it ignores the appearance of i3wm or, very common with xinitrc, because there's a race condition between parallel starts (ie. you're forking commands in xinitrc)

kaifis · 2018-11-07 13:10:41

I've found i3 command no_focus which solved my problem. https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#no_focus

seth · 2018-11-07 15:31:52

In this case it's a i3wm bug, the window says that it doesn't want the focus. i3wm should never pass it there itfp.

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#1 2018-11-06 20:38:17

[SOLVED] How to disable focus stealing with KDE notifications

#2 2018-11-06 21:14:30

Re: [SOLVED] How to disable focus stealing with KDE notifications

#3 2018-11-07 13:10:41

Re: [SOLVED] How to disable focus stealing with KDE notifications

#4 2018-11-07 15:31:52

Re: [SOLVED] How to disable focus stealing with KDE notifications

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