2009-11-29, 10:52
I got seriously frustrated by my XBMC loosing focus every now and then. This was particularly depressing as I'm using a Bluetooth pilot, which stops working when the app is alt-tabbed to desktop. So I did some testing, googling, and here are all the steps I took. One of them finally did the trick, not sure which.
TweakUI
registry
AVG
AVG - second part
Windows advanced text services
Hope that helps someone out there.
Cheers
TweakUI
- Download and install TweakUI
- Navigate to General > Focus
- tick the "prevent applications from stealing focus" option, apply, exit, restart
registry
- The TweakUI method above should do the very same thing, but in case it doesn't work (it didn't for me)
- start the registry editor of choice
- Navigate to HKCU > Control Panel > Desktop
- check if "ForegroundLockTimeout" key is there.
- If it's not, go to edit menu, select new > DWORD value
- In the new window name the new DWORD value "ForegroundLockTimeout"
- Assign it a value of 30d40
- Close the editor & reboot
AVG
- If you're using AVG and recently updated to version 9.0, open the AVG panel
- Open to Tools > Advanced settings
- Navigate to Appearance (topmost option)
- Disable the game mode
- Apply and reboot
AVG - second part
- If you still experience the same problem, apply this hotfix
- reboot
Windows advanced text services
- Another possible problem is the Windows' language settings.
- To fix that follow this method to disable advanced text services
Hope that helps someone out there.
Cheers