Thank you for the detailed description.
I have reproduced all your settings and cannot get the problem to occur here. I don't know what that means but it sure is strange. SOMETHING must be different on your end that is causing this, but it's not clear what..
Anyway, I guess we're going to have to try a different approach to tracking this down..
I appreciate that the old versions didn't have this problem, but then -- did the old versions have the "Keep LaunchBars on top option at all?
Which actually brings me to an important question:
If disabling the "keep launchbars on top" option solves this focus stealing problem for you, why not just uncheck that option? What does that option get you that you need? My memory is that i only added it because the AUTOHIDING launchbars were falling BELOW other windows -- something that shouldn't happen if you have them reserving space on your desktop as you do?
One other thing you could do is, we know the problem is definitely related to LBC based on your tests, but is it possible you have some additional odd desktop utility which is interacting with it, causing this? Might you try killing off any other weird utilities and see if it makes a difference?
Also, email me (
[email protected]) and i'm going to send you some debug versions and we can see if we can track this sucker down and at least figure out where lbc is misbehaving..