Bug 506173

Summary: When I click on a Link if the browser is already open and minimized, the window doesn't appear to take focus.
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: agarplayerarlon
Component: generalAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM    
Severity: major CC: kde, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 6.4.1   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Attachments: video of the issue

Description agarplayerarlon 2025-06-25 16:38:16 UTC
Created attachment 182659 [details]
video of the issue

SUMMARY
If I click on a link from a Discord message for example, and if the browser is already open but minimized, unlike on Windows, the window of the browser doesn't appear to take focus, and the icon in the taskbar just becomes orange, and this is super annoying and confusing.

I will attach a video of the issue so you can see.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Click on a link on Discord

OBSERVED RESULT
The browser window doesen't appear to take focus


EXPECTED RESULT
The browser window appears and takes the focus.


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: CachyOS Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.15.0
Qt Version: 6.9.1
Kernel Version: 6.15.3-3-cachyos-lto (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 28 × Intel® Core™ i7-14700KF
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (31,2 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060/PCIe/SSE2
Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
Product Name: MS-7E25
System Version: 2.0

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2025-06-25 17:00:51 UTC
This is a bug in one of the two apps:
- Either the app with the link doesn't send an activation token to the target app
- …Or else the receiving app doesn't receive the activation token and handle it properly

In this case both the sending and receiving apps are 3rd-party, so there's unfortunately nothing KDE can do here.

Since both are chromium-based though, that does somewhat narrow down the problem to being in Chromium.
Comment 2 agarplayerarlon 2025-06-26 22:10:05 UTC
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1)
> This is a bug in one of the two apps:
> - Either the app with the link doesn't send an activation token to the
> target app
> - …Or else the receiving app doesn't receive the activation token and handle
> it properly
> 
> In this case both the sending and receiving apps are 3rd-party, so there's
> unfortunately nothing KDE can do here.
> 
> Since both are chromium-based though, that does somewhat narrow down the
> problem to being in Chromium.

this also happens with firefox and outside of discord too