From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040115 Epiphany/1.0.7 Description of problem: When clicking on the desktop active windows do not lose focus. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 1.90 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a window 2. Click on desktop 3. Note that window still has focus Expected Results: Expect the window to lose focus and keyboard input to be accepted by window manager Additional info: I have an rdesktop window open to one of my Win2k servers on one of my workspaces. When I flick between workspaces keybord focus shifts to the rdesktop window - which stats to interpret key sequences. I used select the desktop and keep "flicking" but am now forced to minimise the window. Painful as i'm usually trying to keep an eye on a backup job or an automated deployemnt.
You could use mouse focus ('gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/focus_mode --type string mouse'). Then moving the mouse outside of any windows on the desktop would prevent those windows from receiving keyboard input. You could also open another window (which you don't care about), and then click in it. I'm doubtful the maintainers will want to make clicking the background defocus a window as the background isn't normally seen as a window. If so, I hope one of these workarounds will work for you...
The behavior I was expecting returned a week after I reported this. (After my next apt-get update && apt-get upgrade) "I'm doubtful the maintainers will want to make clicking the background defocus a window as the background isn't normally seen as a window." I disagree - the desktop should certainly be "focus-able" or how would one select icons on the desktop? This bug may have belonged to nautilus at the time. This bug should be closed now. Cheers Carl Gherardi