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Simplenote for Web, Windows, and Linux
https://app.simplenote.com
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Windows App taking focus #427

Closed dartiss closed 5 years ago

dartiss commented 7 years ago

A user in Kayako has reported that, under certain conditions, the Windows app is overriding desktop focus. He’s posted a recreate but also details of a setting that appears to cause it.

From #2901197-t

The bug is simple to reproduce…

  1. open Simplenote.
  2. Open any of multitude of applications (I suspect that there is a LOT of them but I can confirm the following, Wordpad, MS Word, Skype, Putty, Win7 Task Manager).
  3. Move Simplenote window so that it covers at least partially the window of the other application
  4. now when you click the title bar of the other application to bring it forward to the screen, UI of Simplenote is still covering UI of the other application.

It seems that the bug is only present when “Enable desktop composition” in Control Panel – System – Advanced – Performance – Settings is disabled.

I guess it is a minority that disables this setting, but we still do exist. The reason I (and many other) have disabled it is that desktop composition causes audio glitches in digital audio workstations during heavy CPU loads with certain computers (at least mine).

He’s also posted his hardware and software set-up too, if this is of use.

I've also posted the above details on the P2.

davewhitley commented 7 years ago

User setup:

Simplenote (1.0.5) on Windows 7 64-bit

davewhitley commented 7 years ago

This appears to only be a Windows 7 setting. I have 10, so I am unable to test it at the moment. If someone has a Windows 7 machine and can reproduce we can add this is as bug. Although, it is probably an issue with Electron.

mirka commented 5 years ago

Closing since I couldn't reproduce this in the current Simplenote version, and also it's likely not something we can fix on our side.