Chrome loses focus when i call hyperterm with a hotkey on Win10

[avxkim]

I saw people has solutions for this issue on a Mac, but nothing on windows.

[favna]

Back in June I wasn't able to reproduce it but now that I take another look at it I am so I'll have to look into this again

[avxkim]

Steps to reproduce this:

1. Open Chrome.
2. Open Hyper overlay with a hotkey.
3. Close Hyper overlay with a hotkey.
4. Chrome is not focused, i.e. i cant just type in address bar with 1 click, i first need to return focus to chrome by clicking on it.

[favna]

Yes I can reproduce it with both Chrome and Discord (which is Electron so Chromium I guess). I'll have to debug it

[avxkim]

Discord does work just like overlay? You can hide/show it by a hotkey? Issue is in this mechanism i guess, because VSCode when minimized, not causing this bug to chrome.

[favna]

Your sentence is all jumbled up there but what I meant is that Discord also doesn't gain focus back when closing and while I can't check right now if I'd have to guess I'd say no program at all does.

[avxkim]

So you think it would be possible to fix?

[favna]

I don't know. I'll have to look into it when I have time.

[favna]

Update: I'm afraid I can't fix it without completely rewriting the plugin. It appears that Electron simply doesn't have a proper API to fetch the last focused window for Windows (it does for MacOS) and the reason it didn't work was because the methods used previously were simply returning null for the _lastFocus rather than the actual window.

It might be possible with something like electron-window-manager but like I said, that would require completely rewriting the plugin from scratch and I'm not looking to do that.