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Prevent newly focused windows to steal focus from Shell (Take 3)

Carlos Garnacho requested to merge carlosg/mutter:wip/carlosg/x11-focus-stealing-take3 into main

Segue from !2832 (merged) and !2776 (merged).

Revert the previous remaining commits and try a 3rd approach, namely:

  • _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW from clients is ignored while GNOME Shell has focus
  • The implicit focus during meta_window_show() is avoided in the same situation

This seems to address the original gnome-shell#5932 (closed) more specifically, while avoiding other situations where mutter is actually switching focus between already visible windows while holding a grab for legit reasons, like alt-tab.

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