Brave steals focus and does not honour window manager hints

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Description

On systems that provide user-configurable window placement behaviour (e.g., X11), Brave just does its own thing. It ignores all WM hints and always steals focus, even when the window manager is configured with aggressive focus-stealing prevention.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Configure your window manager to not give new windows focus
2. Configure your window manager to place windows a certain way you can recognize
3. Use Brave

Actual result:

Brave behaves completely differently from almost all other programs on the system. Windows are always staggered a certain way that is not the system-configured way. New browser windows always get focus (which is extremely dangerous) even when the window manager is configured with aggressive focus stealing prevention.

Expected result:

When new windows shouldn’t get focus they shouldn’t get focus. New windows should not place themselves at any specific coordinates if it’s not a session restore.

Reproduces how often:

Always

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave	1.19.92 Chromium: 88.0.4324.152 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision	6579930fc53b4dc589c042bec9d0a3778326974d-refs/branch-heads/4324@{#2106}
OS	Linux

Version/Channel Information:

• Can you reproduce this issue with the current release? Yes but my copy is out of date, will re-verify if needed
• Can you reproduce this issue with the beta channel? Will verify if needed
• Can you reproduce this issue with the nightly channel? Will verify if needed

Other Additional Information:

• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields? Not applicable
• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Rewards? Not applicable
• Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome? Will try to verify if needed (I don’t use Chrome)

Miscellaneous Information: