albert not receiving focus on Ubuntu 22+ / GNOME 44.2+

black-snow commented 1 year ago

Either, somehow, nobody is using albert on vailla Ubuntu or I'm blind. Or there's weird behaviour just on my machine.

Description

I installed albert on a Ubuntu 23.04 (lunar) and it "barely" works. First of all, my shortcut (ctrl+space) doesn't toggle albert most of the time (some times it works ...). So I added a global shortcut with albert toggle, which seems to work fine.
But when albert toggles, it doesn't receive focus (which renders it quite useless). I actively have to click the window. Hence, I cannot close it with clicking anywhere or hitting ESC for it isn't focused in the first place.

I installed albert via https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home:manuelschneid3r&package=albert (which only mentions xUbuntu).

albert also doesn't seem to keep the autostart flag.

I tried it on Ubuntu LTS as well with the exact same behaviour.

Expected behavior

Configured shortcut toggles albert window, which receives the focus.

Steps to reproduce

Install Ubuntu (22 LTS or later).
Install albert as stated here

Source

home:manuelschneid3r/xUbuntu_23.04

Debug output

``` Albert version: 0.21.1 Build date: Jun 27 2023 10:43:37 Qt version: 6.4.2 Build ABI: x86_64-little_endian-lp64 Arch (build/current): x86_64/x86_64 Kernel (type/version): linux/6.2.0-24-generic OS: Ubuntu 23.04 OS (type/version): ubuntu/23.04 $QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME: Platform name: wayland Font: Ubuntu,11,-1,5,400,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1 Binary location: /usr/bin/albert $PWD: /home/xxx $SHELL: /bin/bash $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 Language: English Locale: en_US $XDG_SESSION_TYPE: wayland $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP: ubuntu:GNOME $DESKTOP_SESSION: ubuntu $XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP: ubuntu Icon theme: Yaru 12:49:39 [crit:albert] Application has not been terminated graciously 12:49:39 [debg:albert] Checking for a running instance… 12:49:39 [info:albert] There is another instance of albert running. ```

/edit: env QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb albert won't help.

FlorianMartinez01 commented 1 year ago

I'm in similar case. I'm on Ubuntu 23.04 with last update of albert (0.21.1) and I also have the issue about the focus. Hope someone have a fix idea.

ManuelSchneid3r commented 1 year ago

Please be more specific in the issue title. "not really working on Ubuntu 22+" is not really something i can work with efficiently.

only mentions xUbuntu

the x in this case is a placeholder for things like X,K,L or whateverbuntu is out there.

shortcut (ctrl+space) doesn't toggle albert most of the time (some times it works ...)

most of the times? can you try to be a bit more precise?
is most of the times whenever an X window is focused? then env QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb albert should help.

it doesn't receive focus

are you using gnome 44.1? then see https://github.com/albertlauncher/albert/issues/1231

black-snow commented 1 year ago

Thanks for the quick reply. Sounds like #1231 already addressed the issue.

Autostart and global shortcut isn't a big issue. Gonna close this.

ManuelSchneid3r commented 1 year ago

Sounds like #1231 already addressed the issue.

it depends. #1231 is a regression in version 44.1. What does gnome-shell --version return on your system?

FlorianMartinez01 commented 1 year ago

it return Gnome Shell 44.2

ManuelSchneid3r commented 1 year ago

Closing as dupe of #1231

albertlauncher / albert