I3: Not hiding on "focus out"

[LGraz]

Dear Developers,
Here is something that annoys me, but since your project is just awesome i will not leave it but try to improve by this bug report ;)

Description
Albert does not hide itself on i3 if you focus out via i3 shortcuts, even though the option "Hide on focus out" is active (works if loses focus by clicking somewhere else). Two such shortcuts (i3 commands) are:

• super+space (i3 shortcut config: bindsym $mod+space focus mode_toggle)
• switch workspace, e.g.: i3 command: workspace next

Expected behavior
Albert should hide if focus is lost

Steps to reproduce

1. via super+space: open terminal --- open albert (toggle on) --- press super+space --- start typing in terminal while albert still visible
2. via workspace switch: open albert(toggle on) --- go to some other workspace (e.g. via super+9) --- go back to previous workspace --- albert is still there

Additional information (please provide the following information):

Source: installed via AUR: albert-bin

Output of `albert --report `

core: Albert version: 0.17.2 core: Build date: May 9 2022 06:42:03 core: Qt version: 5.15.5 core: QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME: qt5ct core: Binary location: /usr/bin/albert core: PWD: /home/lukas core: SHELL: /bin/zsh core: LANG: en_US.UTF-8 core: XDG_SESSION_TYPE: x11 core: XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP: i3 core: DESKTOP_SESSION: i3 core: XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP: i3 core: OS: Arch Linux core: OS (type/version): arch/unknown core: Build ABI: x86_64-little_endian-lp64 core: Arch (build/current): x86_64/x86_64 core: Kernel (type/version): linux/5.18.6-arch1-1

Output of albert when started in a terminal (stdout/stderr)
---> output does not change if focusing out / in (via super+space)

[ManuelSchneid3r]

Unforutnately my resources are extremely limited. Although I like i3 I dont have time to debug this. I have the strong suspicion that this is an issue with the window properties i3 reports sets since mainstream window managers (compiz, mutter and what not) dont have any problems in this way. I'd totally appreciate if you are willing to debug it and file an issue on the relevant trackers (here, qt, i3) depending on the cause, since I see that there is a tech user base which i dont want to neglect.

[LGraz]

Pardon my silence,

since I am not a developer I dare not to go into the sourcecode of albert/i3. But meanwhile I developed a workaround.
ADD the following script to your i3 config:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
while read -r line 
do
        WINDOW_ID="$(echo  $line | awk '/_NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW\(WINDOW\)/{print $NF}')"
        NAME=$(xprop -id $WINDOW_ID | awk '/_NET_WM_NAME/{$1=$2="";print}' | cut -d'"' -f2)
        if [[ "$NAME_OLD" == *"albert — Albert"* ]] && [[ "$NAME" != *"albert — Albert"* ]]; then
                albert hide
        fi
        NAME_OLD="$NAME"
done < <(xprop -spy -root _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW)

I cannot acess if this workaround is worthy engough to enter the source of albert. I hope someone of you could do that ;)

[ManuelSchneid3r]

is this still a thing?

[LGraz]

seems to be fixed. Thanks <3