Focus constantly moves to the secondary screen upon workspace switch

[Pirouette Cacahuète]

I have two screen, side by side, with IDs (2) and (3) ; physically and within GNOME Control Center, the setup is as is:

 [ (3) ][ (2) ]

The Screen with identifier (2) is defined as the main screen.

My multiscreen setup in GNOME Control Center is:
 - Fixed number of workspace (12)
 - Workspaces only on main screen

The issue is that whenever I move from one workspace to the other (using keyboard shortcuts CTRL+ALT+(<-|->), the system gives focus to the secondary screen, identifier (3) above.

This is really super painful on a day-to-day basis because I spend half of my time fixing the focus and/or inputing in the wrong window. It already made me loose valuable work because of a CTRL+C in the wrong window.

As much as I can recall, this was not the behavior in previous releases.
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ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.26.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
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CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.04
InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-07-04 (324 days ago)
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RebootRequiredPkgs: Error: path contained symlinks.
Tags: lunar wayland-session
Uname: Linux 6.2.0-20-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to lunar on 2023-04-21 (33 days ago)
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[Pirouette Cacahuète (lissyx)]

According to the upstream issue, it has been fixed by https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/commit/0d69fabbe6895fdac31e044060ed16bd1f1c344a.

However, 23.04 mutter package is 44.0 and looking at the source, it seems the fix is there. So somehow it is not working.

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[Pirouette Cacahuète (lissyx)]

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[Pirouette Cacahuète (lissyx)]

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[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Since the upstream bug is closed as fixed in 44.0 already we shouldn't use that upstream bug. Please report a new one at: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Does this command resolve it?

  gnome-extensions disable <email address hidden>

If so then it would be bug 1969598.

[Pirouette Cacahuète (lissyx)]

Thanks, I just tried and for now it does not help. The other bug mentions one might need to restart the session which I can't do at the moment but will try later.

[Pirouette Cacahuète (lissyx)]

Disabling this extension and logging out / logging back in, I still have the problem

[Pirouette Cacahuète (lissyx)]

Has upstream just reverted the offending change? https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/2909

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Let's assume that's the one...

[Pirouette Cacahuète (lissyx)]

Do you know if it's part of the lunar-updates 44.2-0ubuntu1 ? Looking at the changelog it's not clear to me.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

The fix is only in the next version 45 at the moment.

[Pirouette Cacahuète (lissyx)]

~~Just upgraded my laptop to 23.10 release, and I can confirm the issue is STILL present. This is NOT fixed.~~

It is indeed fixed, I am now facing bug 1969598, since running `gnome-extensions disable <email address hidden>` helps.