# Stealing focus

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/stealing-focus/10418>\
**Category:** The Garage\
**Created:** [August 27, 2015, 2:29pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/stealing-focus/10418 "2015-08-27T14:29:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![ComingToGetYouBarbar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bcef8e/32.png) [@ComingToGetYouBarbar](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/ComingToGetYouBarbar)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 2:29pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/stealing-focus/10418/1 "2015-08-27T14:29:54Z")

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Cataclysm is rude (in the software sense). It steals focus, even from the task manager in win7. I got perma-paralyzed by the Amigara Horrors and ended up having to reboot since they couldn’t get through my armour to kill me. Alt-tab wouldn’t work since Cataclysm kept stealing back focus and alt-f4 did nothing. I could ctrl-alt-delete out, but trying to bring up the task manager to shut down Cataclysm resulted in Cataclysm stealing focus again instantly. I waited about ten minutes for my character to starve to death, then ended up having to ctrl-alt-delete and reboot. 0.C stable, tiles, win7-64.

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**Author:** ![Rivet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/rivet/32/11_2.png) [@Rivet](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Rivet)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 10:35pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/stealing-focus/10418/2 "2015-08-27T22:35:33Z")

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That is an odd one.

I dev/play on a Windows 7 system and I’ve not been able to replicate this.

Anybody else experience this before?

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**Author:** ![i2amroy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/i2amroy/32/909_2.png) [@i2amroy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/i2amroy)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 11:07pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/stealing-focus/10418/3 "2015-08-27T23:07:33Z")

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Could possibly be an SDL only thing, don’t know if you are running curses or SDL when you are doing your dev/playing.

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**Author:** ![ComingToGetYouBarbar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bcef8e/32.png) [@ComingToGetYouBarbar](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/ComingToGetYouBarbar)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2015, 12:52am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/stealing-focus/10418/4 "2015-08-28T00:52:02Z")

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I also play fullscreen, which might make a difference.

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**Author:** ![Coolthulhu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/coolthulhu/32/2446_2.png) [@Coolthulhu](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Coolthulhu)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2015, 4:05am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/stealing-focus/10418/5 "2015-08-28T04:05:30Z")

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Could be the result on one of the responsiveness fixes.

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**Author:** ![Graphical](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/graphical/32/12739_2.png) [@Graphical](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Graphical)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2015, 4:25am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/stealing-focus/10418/6 "2015-08-28T04:25:47Z")

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Please just play experimental. They added sound!