Back in the old Mac OS 9 days, when an application wanted to get your attention, it would just sit quietly and blink without interrupting what you are doing (like Windows did).
However, ever since Apple shipped Mac OS X ten years ago, this has not been the case. Now when an application wants to get your attention, it, like Windows, just pops a window up in front of whatever you are doing (they call this ‘stealing focus.’) Unlike Windows, this behavior cannot be turned off (in Windows XP you can use a free Microsoft tool called TweakUI).
While I was searching messageboards for a possible solution/hack to fix this issue I came across this entry by a similarly frustrated user:
“YES AAAAAAAAAH THIS IS A REAL AGRESSION TO THE NERVES ! ! !”
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