Focus on the recently focused window

[hamadahiro]

All my settings and preferences windows are set to manage=off. However, when I close that window, it doesn't focus back on the main window, but I have to click every time. Also, focus_follows_mouse has never worked for me. I'm on Sonoma 14.2.1 and Yabai 6.0.6.

Is this issue related to Sonoma, or am I doing something wrong?

Here's my config. I have added only two rules related to this issue: Safari app and it's settings window titled "General". When I close General, it won't focus back to Safari main window.

# load scripting additions
yabai -m signal --add event=dock_did_restart action="sudo yabai --load-sa"
yabai -m signal --add event=window_focused action="sketchybar --trigger window_focus"

# disable macos window manager
launchctl unload -F /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.WindowManager.plist > /dev/null 2>&1 &

# kills animation when opening a folder on a desktop
defaults write com.apple.finder DisableAllAnimations -bool true
killall Finder # or logout and login
# to reset system defaults:
# defaults delete com.apple.finder DisableAllAnimations

# global settings
yabai -m config					              \
	layout 			          bsp		        \
	window_placement 	    second_child	\
	split_ratio 		      0.5       		\
  window_shadow         float         \
	window_gap 		        8         		\
	top_padding 		      5             \		
	bottom_padding 		    0		          \
	left_padding 		      0		          \
	right_padding 		    0	          	\
	mouse_drop_action 	  swap		      \
  focus_follows_mouse 	autofocus     \
	mouse_follows_focus 	off

# move window to space
yabai -m window --space 1
yabai -m window --space 2
yabai -m window --space 3
yabai -m window --space 4
yabai -m window --space 5
yabai -m window --space 6
yabai -m window --space 7
yabai -m window --space 8

# space labels
yabai -m space 1 --label dev
yabai -m space 2 --label web
yabai -m space 3 --label msg
yabai -m space 4 --label org
yabai -m space 5 --label txt
yabai -m space 6 --label fun
yabai -m space 7 --label art
yabai -m space 8 --label k12

# Rules
yabai -m rule --add app="Safari$"                       space=^web
yabai -m rule --add title="General$"                                manage=off

[koekeishiya]

I have no idea what the consequences of disabling macOS WindowManager is (and I do NOT do this),

# disable macos window manager
launchctl unload -F /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.WindowManager.plist > /dev/null 2>&1 &

so maybe that is the issue? Usually macOS would focus the Safari window automatically when the Settings window is closed.

I do have this signal in my config to focus a new window when a window is closed in cases where macOS does not do it automatically:

yabai -m signal --add event=window_destroyed active=yes action="yabai -m query --windows --window &> /dev/null || yabai -m window --focus mouse &> /dev/null || yabai -m window --focus \$(yabai -m query --windows --space | jq .[0].id) &> /dev/null"

Edit: Note that window_destroyed signal does not correctly trigger in v6.0.6 due to a bug #2048

[hamadahiro]

I tried both deleting the code that disables WindowManager, and adding your code, but it didn't worked. So I guess it's because of the bug in 6.0.6?

[hamadahiro]

Adding your code fixed the issue now.