Version: unspecified (using KDE 4.8.0) OS: Linux I have a multihead setup with two X screens. When I set disableMultihead=true in ~/.kde4/share/config/kcmdisplayrc, plasma does not start on the second screen, but kwin does. This has various negative side-effects. When an application (on screen 0) spawns a modal dialog, that dialog gets focused. Once I close the dialog the focus is not returned to the spawning window. In fact, no window on screen 0 gets focus at all. This is incredibly annoying with keyboard-intense applications that spawn a lot of dialogs, like kmymoney. You have to manually focus the application before you can start typing again. This does not happen on gtk-apps like google chrome. If you open the "About" dialog in chrome and close it, the focus returns to chrome. I am using "click to focus" and "focus stealing prevention low". Setting it to "focus follows mouse" and/or "focus stealing prevention high" has no effect. If I open an xterm on screen 1, switch to screen 0, start dolphin, open and close its "About" dialog, the xterm on screen 1 gets focused. The alt+tab switch seems to be affected, too. Closing a modal dialog and pressing alt+tab does not cycle through active windows on screen 0. My guess is that it tries to cycle through the windows on screen 1 for no apparent reason. My current workaround is to kill the secon kwin process in a startup script (and hope that I kill the one on screen 1). When I do that, the focus is always returned to the application that spawned the modal dialog. This issue appeared sometime around 4.7.1. I had no such problems with older versions. A fresh user profile does not change the behavior either. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: - Start KDE on a system with two X screens - Start an xterm on display 1 - Start dolphin on display 0 - Open the "About" dialog in dolphin - Close the "About" dialog - The xterm on screen 1 gains focus Actual Results: The window focus is on the wrong display Expected Results: Dolphin on display 0 should regain focus Kernel 3.2.1-gentoo-r2, x86, nvidia binary driver 290.10, GeForce 9500GT
Created attachment 75840 [details] Disable multihead support in kwin when disableMultihead=true is in kcmdisplayrc
@Grégory please post tht at git.reviewboard.kde.org - it's gonna be lost on the bug. The focus annoyance is likely bug #157219 @anybody (esp. gentoo users and devs) can you please have a look at the last patch attached to bug #256242 (jaja i know what i said, i may do that ;-) and confirm or deny that there's an improvement reg. the focus randomly bein nowhere?
*** Bug 311840 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Always check whether there are bugs before pushing a change and thanks again to Grégory for providing the patch. commit ab6d5c048a25bcb2f5bdb822ba3eda64019c61bc Author: Grégory Coutant <gregory.coutant@gmail.com> Date: Fri Dec 14 19:41:13 2012 +0100 Add ability to disable multihead support REVIEW: 107735