Please refer to https://blogs.gnome.org/shell- dev/2024/09/20/understanding-gnome-shells-focus-stealing-prevention/
The "stealing focus prevention" of Gnome does steal me the focus to my App currently in focus, e.g.: 5 min. ago, opened a html-file via double-click, firefox will be popup in foreground. With ctrl-f get no "search-Box", instead the address box of nautilius, the file-manager not visible, will be edit by me, with the given search string. Which application did steal the focus of firefox, it is the "Gnome 46 stealing focus prevention" mechanism, it does not recognize the focus of the user, it is all ways the visible app. "Unfortunately the current situation with smart as the default means that we’re not getting most of the benefits of focus stealing prevention. Apps are able to spawn a new window over your current one and grab keyboard focus, because the smart mode just gives the new window focus, ..."(refer to given link) "Apps are able to spawn a new window over your current one and grab keyboard focus, ..." Yes, of course, a double click on a html-file spawn a new window, over nautilus, my current one, and grab keyboard focus, yes, that is my intention if I open a html-file via doubleclick and search via ctrl-f. But this will be prevented by the "Gnome 46, stealing focus prevention", it does mean Gnome prevent the user for normal work, what a mess ! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2084505 Title: gnome : An open application reopen leads to a message Box : Application is ready Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Please refer also to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/2081943 and there to #5 by P.Cox. No LSB modules are available. Description: Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS Release: 24.04 Gnome Version 46 X11 Linux 6.8.0-45-generic AMD Ryzen™ 5 3500U with Radeon™ Vega Mobile Gfx × 8 AMD Radeon™ Vega 8 Graphics 8GB Ram I use ffmpeg for video encoding to h.265, therefore CPU load near by 100% of 8 CPU Threads. But until Ubuntu 22.04.03 and the respective Gnome, no problems to reopen an application like firefox, visible as open in the left panel. But now if I try to reopen firefox, visible in the left panel, I will get a "Message Box" with the information, firefox is an application, what is that ??? Or a running terminal, after I try to reopen it, I get again a message box, "terminal ready", but not the terminal itself to see the status of the respective procedure. Or I open a txt-file in nautilus via gedit, now the txt-file is in foreground : ctrl-f to search for a string in the txt-file and give in a string, leads to an input in nautilus, not in foreground, in the address txt-box of it, an editing of the txt-file it self is not possible. What I expect to happen : Reopen firefox leads the firefox window, nothing else Reopen an terminal leads to the terminal itself, nothing else. Open a txt-file and it is in foreground, and it is activated via cursor, shortcuts have to control the txt.file, nothing else. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/2084505/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
