albert not receiving focus on Ubuntu 22+ / GNOME 44.2+

[black-snow]

Either, somehow, nobody is using albert on vailla Ubuntu or I'm blind. Or there's weird behaviour just on my machine.

Description

I installed albert on a Ubuntu 23.04 (lunar) and it "barely" works. First of all, my shortcut (ctrl+space) doesn't toggle albert most of the time (some times it works ...). So I added a global shortcut with albert toggle, which seems to work fine.
But when albert toggles, it doesn't receive focus (which renders it quite useless). I actively have to click the window. Hence, I cannot close it with clicking anywhere or hitting ESC for it isn't focused in the first place.

I installed albert via https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home:manuelschneid3r&package=albert (which only mentions xUbuntu).

albert also doesn't seem to keep the autostart flag.

I tried it on Ubuntu LTS as well with the exact same behaviour.

Expected behavior

Configured shortcut toggles albert window, which receives the focus.

Steps to reproduce

• Install Ubuntu (22 LTS or later).
• Install albert as stated here

Source

home:manuelschneid3r/xUbuntu_23.04

Debug output

        Albert version: 0.21.1
            Build date: Jun 27 2023 10:43:37
            Qt version: 6.4.2
             Build ABI: x86_64-little_endian-lp64
  Arch (build/current): x86_64/x86_64
 Kernel (type/version): linux/6.2.0-24-generic
                    OS: Ubuntu 23.04
     OS (type/version): ubuntu/23.04
 $QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME: 
         Platform name: wayland
                  Font: Ubuntu,11,-1,5,400,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1
       Binary location: /usr/bin/albert
                  $PWD: /home/xxx
                $SHELL: /bin/bash
                 $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
              Language: English
                Locale: en_US
     $XDG_SESSION_TYPE: wayland
  $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP: ubuntu:GNOME
      $DESKTOP_SESSION: ubuntu
  $XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP: ubuntu
            Icon theme: Yaru
12:49:39 [crit:albert] Application has not been terminated graciously
12:49:39 [debg:albert] Checking for a running instance…
12:49:39 [info:albert] There is another instance of albert running.

/edit:
env QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb albert won't help.

[FlorianMartinez01]

I'm in similar case. I'm on Ubuntu 23.04 with last update of albert (0.21.1) and I also have the issue about the focus. Hope someone have a fix idea.

[ManuelSchneid3r]

Please be more specific in the issue title. "not really working on Ubuntu 22+" is not really something i can work with efficiently.

only mentions xUbuntu

the x in this case is a placeholder for things like X,K,L or whateverbuntu is out there.

shortcut (ctrl+space) doesn't toggle albert most of the time (some times it works ...)

• most of the times? can you try to be a bit more precise?
• is most of the times whenever an X window is focused? then env QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb albert should help.

it doesn't receive focus

• are you using gnome 44.1? then see In GNOME 44.1, the keyboard focus cannot be set after albert displays the search box #1231

[black-snow]

Thanks for the quick reply. Sounds like #1231 already addressed the issue.

Autostart and global shortcut isn't a big issue. Gonna close this.

[ManuelSchneid3r]

Sounds like #1231 already addressed the issue.

it depends. #1231 is a regression in version 44.1. What does gnome-shell --version return on your system?

[FlorianMartinez01]

it return Gnome Shell 44.2

[ManuelSchneid3r]

Closing as dupe of #1231