Evince (still/again) steals focus upon automatic document refresh
Submitted by dpl
Link to original bug (#640441)
Description
When evince shows a document (e.g., mylatexfile.pdf) that is then altered (e.g., by editing and compiling mylatexfile.tex), evince updates the document, which is a good thing. However, it also steals the focus, i.e., pops up into the foreground, which is generally not considered the proper behaviour.
(This is the same issue as for evince 2.24 here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=571051 and here https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592821 )
Even though I gather that the first one was claimed to have been resolved for the core issue, it seems that the bug either still persists or has been re-introduced somehow, as also indicated by these two much more recent threads:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/evince/+bug/664448 http://groups.google.com/group/fr.comp.applications.emacs/browse_thread/thread/8e3fcec3b51b7af5/c6323f1a66ab5daa?#c6323f1a66ab5daa
Note that all wishes that evince better not auto-update should be ignored -- evince should simply not steal the focus, but of course auto-update as it always did.
My specs:
uname -a Linux xxx 2.6.36-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jan 8 14:15:27 CET 2011 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8700 @ 2.53GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux evince --version GNOME Document Viewer 2.32.0 awesome --version awesome v3.4.9 (Smack) • Build: Jan 23 2011 22:11:32 for x86_64 by gcc version 4.5.2 • D-Bus support:
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Version: 2.32.x