PiP protocol addition...!?
PiP protocol addition...!?
Posted Oct 24, 2025 1:54 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)In reply to: PiP protocol addition...!? by Wol
Parent article: KDE Plasma 6.5 released
Contrast this with macOS where password prompts are nigh useless if some window-popping CI is in progress because new windows are "shiny" and get focus, context be damned. Good luck navigating the damned global menu or, once you do get some progress, elevating privileges to kill that rogue process if your admin password dialog can't accept a keystroke in edgewise (and you better hope that the window-popper isn't keylogging you too). In fact, it is so egregious that on machines where we missed disabling the screen lock, if CI (that you could not see…though who knows with Liquid Glass these days) was running in the background, the *lock screen* password entry would also lose focus to those windows in the background.
So yes, focus-forcing is nasty and I detest it happening (e.g., Firefox was able to force-focus itself in XMonad), but with Wayland, the compositor is in full control of such requests and can grant access to such abilities when it *does* make sense.
Posted Oct 24, 2025 8:19 UTC (Fri)
by taladar (subscriber, #68407)
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Both of those could be solved by just not allowing focus stealing at all and only allowing the user to manually switch focus to a new window.
PiP protocol addition...!?
