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Window Focus not the same as the Active Window #1264

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Portreve opened this issue Nov 29, 2017 · 3 comments
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Window Focus not the same as the Active Window #1264

Portreve opened this issue Nov 29, 2017 · 3 comments

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@Portreve
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Portreve commented Nov 29, 2017

Operating System: 3.26.2
Budgie version: i.e. Budgie 10.4-150

The issue encountered

Focus does not automatically switch to the active window.

Steps to reproduce the issue

I display folders and mounted volumes on my desktop. However, it's not something related to the desktop folder, so you can start this process from some other location in the directory tree instead if you wish.

  1. Double-click your Home folder.
    1a. A new window displaying the contents of your Home folder is generated.

  2. [CTRL] + [SHIFT] + [N] to create a new folder and summon the dialog box for providing a name.
    2a. Notice the fact that the name field is NOT blank. It contains the name "Home".
    2b. This is the first clue that the tree level where focus actually is is not where a normal user would assume it to be.

  3. Ignoring the fact that there's a name there, just simply type a new name for a folder, and either click the "Create" button, or press [ENTER].

  4. The newly-created folder will NOT appear in the window you're in (which is the "expected" behavior) but rather on the desktop, which is the location in the directory tree where focus actually is, though it shouldn't be.

Ideally, the active location and the focus location should always be the same. So, for example, if I had my Home folder open, but actually wanted to create a new folder on my desktop, this should be possible through first clicking on the desktop somewhere, and then beginning the "create new folder" process.

@ghost
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ghost commented Jul 12, 2018

I can reproduce this when using a keyboard shortcut to open my home folder.
This will be fixed by the pending pull request #1497 .

Cannot reproduce when navigating to a folder yet. Is this still an issue today?

@JoshStrobl
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1a. A new window displaying the contents of your Home folder is generated.

So the file manager, which is Nautilus.

[CTRL] + [SHIFT] + [N] to create a new folder and summon the dialog box for providing a name.

Which is a thing, in Nautilus, a file manager. Not Budgie. Not really sure what the issue is here.

@ghost
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ghost commented Jul 13, 2018

@JoshStrobl, I understand it this way:
The window manager is not changing the input focus to the newly opened window under certain circumstances. So the "old" focussed window received the shortcuts.

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