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Preventing applications from stealing focus
Are there any solutions to prevent applications stealing focus from the active window?
This is especially annoying when I'm starting an application, switch to do something else and the new ...
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Active window (program) unexpectedly loses focus in Windows 7
Something is shifting (stealing) focus from my active window (active program) in my Windows, as I'm currently using it.
I have the same problem as described in this question, with a few exceptions:
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How to detect a background program (in Windows 7) which steals active focus automatically?
A background process/program steals focus from my currently active application. It disturbs me a lot when I type in an app or control an app using keyboard or play online flash games in full-screen.
I ...
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XWindows-like mouse behaviour in Windows 7
I currently use Linux as my primary desktop OS, and have done for more years than I care to remember. In recent years I've settled on GNOME and XFCE as my environments of choice.
For a number of ...
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How to make a scheduled window-creating program not steal the focus?
I have written a small console program that checks that all my websites are up and running properly. I use the Microsoft Windows Task Scheduler to run this program automatically once a day.
The ...
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Opened windows don't have focus on Windows 10
When I open a new window by right clicking an application in the task bar such as Visual Studio Code and select a recently opened project, the window does not have focus and the application icon in ...
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is there a way to disable Windows from switching window focus when I am typing? [duplicate]
Sometimes when I am typing in a notepad, command prompt, webpage, or the file explorer address bar, or even any other place where typing is allowed, it happens that the currently active window loses ...
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windows: how to prevent background programs from stealing focus?
please don't misunderstand me, i do not want a tool to make a selected window always stay on top - there's already plenty of answers on SU for that question (such, as, these).
what i want is that the ...
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On demand keyboard focus indicator for all monitors?
Is there a way in Windows to indicate on all displays which window|process has the keyboard focus, only on demand by a keyboard shortcut?
(For example with a bigger and centered visual indicator (per ...
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Windows 7 Unable to Focus
I've been trying to dig around to see if I can find this issue to no avail. Doing anything in windows 7 to get the focus of a window besides clicking on the window or using Windows+Tab has no effect. ...
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Using Alt-Tab moves mouse to centre of newly focused window
I'm getting used to Linux way of giving focus to a window just by hovering over it with the mouse. I've found it's possible to get the same effect in Windows by changing a byte in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\...
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How to track a program that changes the window focus [duplicate]
I have a newly reformatted PC and I just finished installing all the programs, drivers and hardware applications (like samsung magician, Logitech gaming software, etc) that I needed.
I work with 2 ...
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Switching to the File-In-Use dialog with the keyboard?
In Windows Vista and up, when you try to move, delete, or rename a file that is locked, Explorer will display a File In Use dialog that lets you Retry or Cancel.
The problem is that this dialog is ...
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How to highlight my currently focused monitor (in multi-monitor display)
I have added a second monitor and am now working in a multi-monitor display (in Windows 7).
I have a constant problem with window focus, where I'm looking at one monitor, doing something with the ...
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Is it possible for Windows to only change focus to another window upon releasing the mouse click?
I would like to know if it is possible for Windows to only change focus upon releasing the mouse click?
For example. I have Chrome full screen, and I download a file. Then I open Windows Explorer and ...
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