Alt+Tab superputty window randomly does not come to foreground, tabs have no focus when it does

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Open superputty with multiple tabs and a horizontal split screen
2. Alt+Tab between windows applications

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Randomly superputty window will not come to the foreground, some times it does 
but then the focus is not on the tab you were working. Actually there is now 
focus at all. Need to click on a tab to start typing.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
1.4.0.1 windows XP 64-bit

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by gkout...@gmail.com on 3 Dec 2012 at 12:42

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Got the same issue here

Version:
1.4.0.1 on win 7 64-bit

Original comment by Apps...@gmail.com on 14 Dec 2012 at 2:44

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Got the same issue here

Version:
1.4.0.1 on Win 7 64-bit

Original comment by foc...@gmail.com on 14 Feb 2013 at 12:53

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Got the same issue here

Version:
1.4.0.2 on Win XP 32-bit

Original comment by koos.ta...@gmail.com on 28 Feb 2013 at 10:10

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yeah, something changed and the hack/hook i'm using it's being picked up.

I also see it taking 2x to switch forward to another app...not sure I can 
address that but I might be able to get something going to focus the doc when 
sp is alt-tabbed into focus

Original comment by btatey...@gmail.com on 17 Mar 2013 at 7:28

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I see this is listed in 1.4.0.3 changelog but the issue was still there in 
1.4.0.3? I have just updated to 1.4.0.4 to see if it is any better. In 1.4.0.3 
SuperPutty sometimes "broke" task switching completely in Win7 x64 in addition 
to the above problems (losing focus of the tab on task switching or seemingly 
randomly, tab switching with ctrl-tab stops working seemingly randomly).

Original comment by vojamo on 3 Jul 2013 at 7:37

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I think I am going to move away from SuperPutty. Its very basic to switch 
between tabs and between applications while working.
Both of these features are  buggy.

I understand this is a free tool, but please dont give up on bug fixing!

Original comment by vikram....@gmail.com on 3 Oct 2013 at 8:59

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Same issue here and this is exceptionally frustrating

Original comment by godzilla...@gmail.com on 12 May 2015 at 9:49

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I can reproduce this problem in 1.4.0.6.

Perhaps related, if I have two tabs open as a split screen, and I have the 
keyboard focus on the tab that I opened second, then clicking another 
application and then back to SuperPuTTY results in the *other* tab regaining 
focus, rather than the one that previously had focus. If I open two new tabs, 
one on each side,  and active, then the focus returns to the tab that is 
sitting on top of the oldest tab, regardless of which active tab had focus 
before switching away.

So it seems that when the app regains system focus, the keyboard focus returns 
to the top-most tab in the group that contains the oldest tab. Correct focus 
has to be restored by a manual click in the desired tab.

Note that clicking once, on the desired tab, doesn't return focus to that tab 
either unless that tab is in the same stack as the oldest tab.

This is a problem because it's common to change application focus all the time 
in Windows, and this results in keyboard input frequently being sent to the 
wrong tab. The workaround is to click on SuperPuTTY twice when returning to the 
app.

Original comment by david.an...@gmail.com on 16 Jul 2015 at 3:16