Bug 450405

Summary: After moving a native Wayland window to a different virtual desktop it is still considered focused
Product: [Plasma] kwin Reporter: Firlaev-Hans <firlaevhans.fiete>
Component: wayland-genericAssignee: KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status: REOPENED ---    
Severity: normal CC: dev.bacteriostat, nate, philipp.reichmuth, postix
Priority: NOR    
Version: 5.24.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Archlinux   
OS: Linux   
See Also: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=444172
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Description Firlaev-Hans 2022-02-16 20:01:21 UTC 
SUMMARY
On wayland if you move any native window to a different workspace it still appears focused in the pager applet (though not in the 3rd party "Window title" applet), still responds to keyboard input, and can still be moved with KWin shortcuts, even though it's now on a different workspace, until you focus something else.
XWayland apps are not affected.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Have keyboard shortcuts set for moving windows to specific virtual desktops
2. Open a native Wayland window (not XWayland). I suggest something like Kate or Konsole will let you type something. 3. Move it to a different VD. Take a look at the desktop pager widget.
4. Type something.
5. Without clicking on anything, press the according keyboard shortcut to move the active window to the desktop you are currently on

OBSERVED RESULT
3. The window will be displayed in the pager applet on the new VD, but it will still be colored as if it was the active window
5. The previously moved window will come back to the current workspace. If you did step 4. then you'll notice that the window accepted keyboard input while it wasn't even on the active workspace.

EXPECTED RESULT
After a window is moved to a different VD, it should not have focus anymore. Thus, it should also no longer accept keyboard input, and KWin shortcuts shouldn't affect it anymore either.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.91.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.16.9-zen1-1-zen (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2022-02-17 23:07:51 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 444172 ***
Comment 2 Firlaev-Hans 2022-02-18 13:38:43 UTC 
I do not believe this is a duplicate of the bug you linked, at least not exactly. At the very least, the fix for the ghost window bug in 5.24.1 did not fix this bug.
It seems likely that this bug was the root cause for the ghost windows bug; Since the native Wayland window is still "focused" after leaving the workspace it would still be drawn, or at least its area would not be repainted, until you actively focus something else.
But the ghost window bug ended up getting fixed by repainting the workspace after a window leaves the VD, which only fixed the symptom and not the root cause.
So while we no longer get the visual artifact, the window is still considered the focused window by KWin and receives keyboard input while on a different workspace, even in the latest Plasma version.
Comment 3 phrxmd 2022-02-19 08:27:34 UTC 
I can reproduce this with Kate: if I open Kate on desktop 1, and then use a keyboard shortcut to move it to desktop 2, when I stay on desktop 1 and continue typing the Kate window on desktop 2 receives my keyboard input.