Metacity tries to avoid focus stealing, and usually it is quite successful in that, at least for me. However, one offender that I notice is gaim. When I receive a message, the gaim window pushes itself to the foreground and grabs the focus, regardless of what I am doing (this even happens if I play a movie fullscreen).
What I am trying to say is, that this doesn't seem to be a general nautilus issue, but rather an application-specifig bug (like one in gaim)? Which particular application does not work correctly for you? -- New windows stealing focus -- and passwords? https://launchpad.net/bugs/54741 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs