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copying dialog keeps getting focus

The File Operation Progress (FOP) dialog tends to steal focus from other Thunar windows.

Reproduction steps:

  • copy a large number of files so the File Operation Progress dialog stays open for a while
  • open a new Thunar window
  • the new Thunar window gets focus but the FOP dialog is displayed on top (albeit deactivated)
  • open a file (TXT, PDF, whatever) so something else gets focus and the latest Thunar window loses focus
  • close the program that was opened to open the file
  • the FOP dialog has focus and the last-opened Thunas window does not have focus

This is a little annoying because I have to set focus to continue my work in the latest Thunar window, but if I would press Enter, the Cancel button in the FOP would activate, which would be very annoying.

Using Thunar 1.8.15, by the way.