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I noticed that GNOME 3 has become much better about not stealing focus (one of the reasons I put up with the Archer aesthetic), but I thought that that was a GNOME design decision. So it's a Wayland thing?
On X11 much of the window management was considered a hint, but the application could just ignore it and do whatever it wanted.
On Wayland applications can't do stuff like self position - they can send some hints, but the compostior is in full control of what to do with them.
I use tiling window managers, and applications doing whatever has become more and more of an issue with ion3 over the last years - together with stuff changing the display resolution (they can't do that on wayland). Now with Hyprland on wayland pretty much all issues are gone.
Excellent! Thanks for the explanation. I haven't kept up with the technical side of Wayland development, and I'm glad to learn this.