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Tuesday, April 11th 2006, 3:58pm

Focus jumps between displays in dual head setup

Hello.

I have just set up Kubuntu Dapper and I'm running the KDE 3.5.2 packages with X.org. I have a Dell D810 laptop with an ATI X600 graphics adapter.

My X setup is a dual-head where I run two seperate desktop displays (:0.0 and :0.1) (ie. this is not MergedFB or Xinerama or any such "streched single desktop" solution).

The problem that I'm facing is that every once in a while the focus jumps from my active window onto a window on the other desktop display. This usually happens when some operation that opens a dialog is run. This is extremely annoying since I have to grab the mouse, click back on the application I was using and then I can continue working (I have to do this since I'm not familiar with a keyboard shortcut to switch between desktop displays like Alt-tab switches between applications). I have tried to put the KDE "focus stealing prevention" to the "extreme" level but that makes no difference in this case, the focus still jumps between displays.

So I have two questions:
1) Does anyone know of a solution to this "cross desktop focus stealing" problem?
2) Does anyone know of a keyboard shortcut to switch between displays?

Kind regards, Stefan Freyr

p.s. here's my Xorg -version:

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stefan@prometheus-stfs:~$ Xorg -version

X Window System Version 7.0.0
Release Date: 21 December 2005
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.0
Build Operating System:Linux 2.6.12 i686
Current Operating System: Linux prometheus-stfs 2.6.15-20-686 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Apr 4 18:37:00 UTC 2006 i686
Build Date: 16 March 2006
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This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "stfs" (Apr 11th 2006, 3:59pm)