[xmonad] how to handle "request focus" events properly

Tue Dec 17 22:59:26 UTC 2013

On 2013-17-12, Ferenc Wagner <wferi at niif.hu> wrote:
> I positively hate that Firefox, if visible on the other screen, steals
> focus from my MUA when I click on some URL which Firefox opens.  How
> could I get rid of this?

Did you set Firefox' browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground
setting to true in about:config?  Apart from not selecting the
new tab in the Firefox window it also prevents Firefox from
grabbing the window manager focus.