Prevent notify-send from grabbing focus in xmonad

I just started using xmonad, and I've got most of the wrinkles ironed out, but this one still bugs me. I use pidgin + libnotify, and whenever a notification pops up, it grabs focus, meaning I can't type anything for a minute (unless I move my mouse and close it). This is particularly annoying when I'm having a chat back-and-forth, and I get notifications from that window/another chat window.
(I know I can turn off the notifications when the window is currently open, but it doesn't solve the larger problem of notifications grabbing focus when I'm typing in a separate screen).

That was not a conscious choice; I just switched from xfce, so that makes sense.
I uninstalled xfce4-notifyd, installed notification-daemon, and reinstalled pidgin-libnotify (for good measure). The notifications still work, so I'm assuming notification-daemon is working properly, but the focus still gets grabbed.
Do you use pidgin as well, or just notification-daemon? I still get the same issue when I do notify-send, which makes me believe it's not pidgin's problem, but maybe not.
This website seems to imply that it's an xmonad configuration issue, but I'm not that familiar with Haskell/xmonad's configurations. Is it possible to alter this behavior *only* for notify-send events, but not anything else that might display an urgent window?

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Berseker wrote:I've seen only now your post.. great job, this is very useful and pretty for those that doesn't use a complete DE.
It would be great to translate your file in different languages (I'll try to translate this in italian if I find some spare time)
Thank you
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<!ENTITY HAS-LABEL "hal.volume.label & !hal.volume.label = ">
<!ENTITY DEVICE "hal.block.device & hal.volume.is_disc = false">
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<halevt:Device match="&CDROM; & hal.volume.is_mounted = false;">
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<halevt:Device match="&DEVICE; & &HAS-LABEL; & hal.volume.is_mounted = false;">
<halevt:OnInit exec="halevt-mount -u $hal.udi$ -p $hal.volume.label$"/>
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<halevt:Device match="&DEVICE; & hal.volume.is_mounted = false; & hal.volume.label = ">
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<halevt:Device match="&CDROM.SIGNAL;">
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<!ENTITY HAS-LABEL "hal.volume.label & !hal.volume.label = ">
<!ENTITY DEVICE "hal.block.device & hal.volume.is_disc = false">
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<!ENTITY DVD "hal.block.device & hal.volume.is_disc & hal.volume.disc.is_blank = false & hal.volume.disc.has_data & hal.volume.disc.is_videodvd = true">
]>
<halevt:Configuration version="0.1" xmlns:halevt="http://www.environnement.ens.fr/perso/dumas/halevt.html">

<halevt:Device match="hal.block.device & hal.volume.is_disc = true & !hal.volume.label = ">
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Last edited by johanbcn (2010-07-12 22:37:43)

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