Loss of focus when an application goes full screen

[Nicolás Abel Carbone]

Steps to reproduce:

* Open a game (splitgate shows the problem, it is free-to-play on Steam)
* Alt-tab out of the game
* Try to come back to the game

Result: The games gains focus for only a second and then is again minimized to dash.

The problem goes away if the default Desktop Icons NG extension is disabled.

I am running Ubuntu 21.10 beta using Mesa on a Radeon 5500XT, using Wayland.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.10
Package: gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng 20-0ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 5.14.9-xanmod2 x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu69
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Oct 5 20:16:12 2021
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-11-04 (335 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" - Release amd64 (20201022)
PackageArchitecture: all
RebootRequiredPkgs: Error: path contained symlinks.
SourcePackage: gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to impish on 2021-10-03 (2 days ago)

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Sounds like the game is minimizing itself, which might be a bug in the toolkit it uses and shares with other games.

Can you find any affected app that doesn't involve setting up Steam?

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Actually this sounds like it might be:

https://gitlab.com/rastersoft/desktop-icons-ng/-/issues/174

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

I suspect this is the fix (which will be in version 23):

https://gitlab.com/rastersoft/desktop-icons-ng/-/merge_requests/188

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Alright, the loss of focus is trivial to reproduce in a Terminal window; just press F11.

As for games being minimized when they lose focus, that would be a feature of the game itself and not something that needs fixing after the focus issue is fixed.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Fix proposed: https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/shell-extensions/gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng/-/merge_requests/2

[Nicolás Abel Carbone (nicocarbone)]

Hi Daniel.
Yeah, that's right. I see now that the problem is that the window losses focus when in fullscreen. I guess the game minimizing is a consequence of the loss of focus. Sorry for my lack of clarity and thank you for the proposed fix.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng - 20-0ubuntu2

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gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng (20-0ubuntu2) impish; urgency=medium

  [ Daniel van Vugt ]
  * debian/patches/Fix-focus-loss-on-fullscreen.patch (LP: #1946159)

 -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson <email address hidden> Wed, 06 Oct 2021 15:22:20 +0200

[Javier Blanco (j2bv16)]

After installing the last update the problem still the same

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Javier,

If problems still exist after you have updated and logged in again then please open a new bug by running this command:

  ubuntu-bug gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng

[Javier Blanco (j2bv16)]

Updated, restarted, purged and installed again. Still the same bug.

New report #1946307