Bug 512715

Summary:	Applications (such as browser) not brought to the front with xdg-open-like behaviour
Product:	[Plasma] kwin	Reporter:	Mingcong Bai <jeffbai>
Component:	wayland-generic	Assignee:	KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	6.5.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Mingcong Bai 2025-11-28 09:44:39 UTC

SUMMARY

With Plasma on Wayland, application windows may not brought to the front when they are called via XDG open - say, when clicking on a link on another application window and that Firefox is behind another window, say a Telegram chat window or Tencent QQ in my case, Firefox shows up with attention highlighting on the taskbar, but was never brought to the front.

It does work, however, when I click on a link or xdg-open a link in Konsole.

It seems quite similar to this report here on Discuss - https://discuss.kde.org/t/plasma6-windows-are-not-popped-up-activated-on-opened-links/ but I'm not sure if they are related.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

1. Open Firefox or some other default browsers, maximise it.
2. Open a Konsole window, maximise it above Firefox.
3. Open Telegram or Tencent QQ (the only two I have tested, there may be others exhibiting this issue), click on a link in the chat window.

OBSERVED RESULT

Firefox on the taskbar turns orange (attention), but window remains behind Konsole.

EXPECTED RESULT

Firefox window should be brought to the front.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS

Operating System: AOSC OS 12.999.0
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.20.0
Qt Version: 6.10.0
Kernel Version: 6.17.7-aosc-main (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 14 × Intel® Core™ Ultra 5 225H
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (30.2 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: Intel® Graphics

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

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