Loss of focus when an application goes full screen

[Javier Blanco]

Steps to reproduce:

Open a game in fullscreen mode.
The desktop is relaunched so the game will be minimized. If you try to open the game again, then it will keep getting minimized

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.10
Package: gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng 20-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.13.0-16.16-generic 5.13.13
Uname: Linux 5.13.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu70
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu Oct 7 00:57:25 2021
InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-06-07 (122 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 21.04 "Hirsute Hippo" - Release amd64 (20210420)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to impish on 2021-09-25 (12 days ago)

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Unfortunately the decision to minimize on a loss of focus is up to the game itself, so that part is not an Ubuntu bug.

What is an Ubuntu bug is that desktop-icons-ng still steals and then quickly restores focus when an app goes fullscreen. This is harmless to most fullscreen apps but obviously not to some games.

A proper fix might end up coming from mutter rather that desktop-icons-ng. I'm not sure yet.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Fix proposed in https://gitlab.com/rastersoft/desktop-icons-ng/-/merge_requests/199

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Fix was merged upstream, and I uploaded to impish.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

On 2021-10-07 18:17, Javier Blanco wrote:
> ** Information type changed from Public to Public Security

How is this a security matter?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng - 20-0ubuntu3

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gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng (20-0ubuntu3) impish; urgency=medium

  [ Daniel van Vugt ]
  * d/p/extension-Ignore-workarea-changes-if-its-just-switching-.patch:
    - Improves yesterday's loss of focus fix (LP: #1946307)

 -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson <email address hidden> Thu, 07 Oct 2021 16:56:06 +0200