@mhoye that irritates me to no end.. I try to write with Emacs through Debian with Gnome during strart up and later -starting apps steal focus. I want to get morning thoughts and end up yellong taboo words at a machine. Not helpful.for a productive day... or I'll still be writing but want to get Firefox ready to preview an org-mode's html file output and Firefox blocks the view.. it seems like such an awful thing that would not happen by default.. I think Gimp might not take over focus of I'm working on something else while it starts up...