Cannot have focus on Ubuntu GNOME

[bachrc]

Describe the bug

I am on Ubuntu 22.04, with GNOME on Xorg (because Tauri doesn’t support global shortcuts on wayland)

My app launches as a tray app.

I registered a global shortcut to show my window, and it works well. Though : the window does not have any focus. When the shortcut is triggered, i get my window, i make it .show(), and I make it .set_focus()… but it won’t. I must click on it to get my focus. Same with a tray item as a trigger.

Reproduction

1. Crrate a Tauri app
2. Main window is hidden by default
3. App is a tray app
4. Register a global shortcut : when triggered, get the main window and make it visible. No focus
5. You can make a set_focus too : no focus on the app

Expected behavior

With a show(), the window is supposed to get the focus.

Platform and versions

Environment
  › OS: Ubuntu 22.04 X64
  › Node.js: 18.13.0
  › npm: 8.19.3
  › pnpm: 7.25.1
  › yarn: Not installed!
  › rustup: 1.25.2
  › rustc: 1.67.0
  › cargo: 1.67.0
  › Rust toolchain: stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu 

Packages
  › @tauri-apps/cli [NPM]: 1.2.3
  › @tauri-apps/api [NPM]: 1.2.0
  › tauri [RUST]: 1.2.4,
  › tauri-build [RUST]: 1.2.1,
  › tao [RUST]: 0.15.8,
  › wry [RUST]: 0.23.4,

App
  › build-type: bundle
  › CSP: unset
  › distDir: ../build
  › devPath: http://localhost:5173/
  › framework: Svelte
  › bundler: Vite

App directory structure
  ├─ src
  ├─ .idea
  ├─ build
  ├─ .svelte-kit
  ├─ static
  ├─ .git
  ├─ node_modules
  └─ src-tauri

Stack trace

No errors

Additional context

No response

[ParthJadhav]

Same happens with me.

[amrbashir]

Could you guys test with another desktop environment or another window manager? I am pretty sure that's just another Gnome bug (or a restriction).

[Pylogmon]

I had the same problem with archlinux Gnome 43.3, I tested it in a virtual machine with the Deepin desktop environment and found no such problem, I guess maybe it's a Gnome bug？

Additional, when I tested on Gnome, I found that if I don't do anything to the window, I have no problem getting focus at all, but if I open the window with a shortcut once, my mouse has any action in the window (click, scroll wheel), After I close the window, and the next time I open the window with a shortcut, getting focus fails.

[bachrc]

I don't have any other DE, I cannot test on another one.

What could the Gnome bug be? I searched through the Gnome issue tracker, and I couldn't find something like this.

[amrbashir]

I am not sure if it is a bug or not but recently, I have seen more often than before that a lot of APIs stopped working on Gnome, for example, set_focus and unminimize and I am not sure if it is just a restriction imposed by the Window Manager in Gnome or straight up a bug but we are calling the right GTK methods so if they ever fix it, the fix will land in tauri automatically.

[klauss194]

+1

[Pylogmon]

I just found the same issue on KDE Plasma. Unlike Gnome, when I create a window using a shortcut key on the desktop in KDE, it can capture focus well. However, if the focus is on another window and I create a window using a shortcut key, this new window will not be able to capture focus. Hope this information helps.

[Pylogmon]

I found that there is such an option in the KDE settings, the default is low, if it is set to none, it can solve this problem, I don't know if there is a similar setting under Gnome.

[0-don]

I found that there is such an option in the KDE settings, the default is low, if it is set to none, it can solve this problem, I don't know if there is a similar setting under Gnome.

this should be added to the docs somewhere I was looking for it for too long

[ayangweb]

Has anyone found a solution for Gnome?