Is there a way to disable it? If there is an annoyance about Avidemux then this definitely is it. There is a good chance I'm hitting my keyboard keys when Avidemux pops to foreground and then my keystrokes get lost (good case) or do something unwanted in Avidemux (bad case).
Quote from: Blues on June 27, 2022, 01:25:03 AMIs there a way to disable it?
What desktop environment do you use? And yes, this behaviour of gnome-shell and Qt drives me nuts too. I hope to be able to investigate mitigation strategies on the side of Avidemux during the next release cycle.
Sorry for late reply. I use plain OpenBox running on Xorg, started by startx script (no login managers). This is a lean setup in an OpenRC based system. You say this is a feature of Qt?
Quote from: Blues on August 08, 2022, 08:24:42 PMYou say this is a feature of Qt?
Not sure about it, the window manager could be at fault all alone. At least on macOS, opening an application-modal dialog doesn't make Avidemux pop into foreground (and I get complains about that ;D).
It is a 'feature' of Qt to open a window that can grab the 'focus', but it is the programmer that enables that option/behavior for the window. I agree with others, it's annoying.
Yeah, that's what I thought, because other Qt based tools do not behave like this. I think some even have this as user choice.
Quote from: Blues on August 11, 2022, 11:07:04 AMbecause other Qt based tools do not behave like this.
Do they open application-modal dialogs on their own (upon some kind of event like task completion)? If they do, but these dialogs don't steal focus, then it is indeed interesting.
Good point. They don't. They just finish processing and do nothing. I still remember some app which had it as user choice, I don't recall what app it was and whether it was Qt or GTK. But you could stop this announcing in Avidemux, I guess?
https://resources.qt.io/
I bet they know the answer. Perhaps just to ask?