https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455228
Bug ID: 455228
Summary: focus follows mouse thwarted by libreoffice
Product: kwin
Version: 5.24.4
Platform: Fedora RPMs
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: core
Assignee: kwin-bugs-n...@kde.org
Reporter: eric.bru...@lps.ens.fr
Target Milestone: ---
Created attachment 149671
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A simple LibreOffice Calc demonstrating the problem
I am running an uptodate fedora 35, with KDE and Xorg.
kwin is configured with "focus follows mouse", and it usually works.
However, a certain manipulation with libreoffice Calc can lock the focus on
libreoffice Calc's window.
In detail, one can specify a list of valid values for some cells in LibreOffice
Calc. In the attached file BugFocus.ods file, the only valid valued for cell A1
are "emacs" and "vim". When clicking on cell A1, a down arrow appears on the
right of the cell. When clicking on the arrow, a drop-down menu appears to
choose one of these values. If one chooses a value (and don't click anywhere
else), then the focus is locked to LibreOffice Calc. In particular, even after
moving the cursor out of LibreOffice's windows, mouse scroll events and
keyboard events are directed to LibreOffice. A mouse click event is first sent
to LibreOffice, but breaks the lock and gives the focus to the window under the
cursor.
I tried all the possible settings for kwin's focus policy (in particular I
tried "extreme focus stealing prevention"), but it doesn't help.
I don't know what horrible thing LibreOffice is doing, but focus stealing
prevention is kwin's job.
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