Hyprland monitor active state is wrong after Screen move

[Janrupf]

Description

When moving a Hyprland workspace from one monitor to another, it looses its active status.

Reproducer

Use the following Quickshell config:

import Quickshell
import Quickshell.Hyprland
import QtQuick

Repeater {
  model: Hyprland.workspaces.values

  Item {
    required property var modelData
    property bool isActive: modelData.active

    onIsActiveChanged: {
      console.log(`Workspace ${modelData.id} is now ${modelData.active ? "active" : "inactive"}`);
    }
  }
}

Trimmed output for workspace ID 1:

DEBUG qml: Workspace 1 is now active
<< Moving to another monitor here >>
DEBUG qml: Workspace 1 is now inactive

However, after the Workspace is moved, it is still focused on the new monitor

[Janrupf]

Alternatively, this also demonstrates the issue very well (looks like its rooted deeper):

import Quickshell
import Quickshell.Hyprland
import QtQuick

Item {
  property var activeWorkspaces: Hyprland.monitors.values.map((monitor) => monitor.activeWorkspace)

  onActiveWorkspacesChanged: {
    console.log("Active workspaces changed:", activeWorkspaces.map(workspace => workspace.id));
  }
}

Example output:

 DEBUG qml: Active workspaces changed: [1,5,7]
 DEBUG qml: Active workspaces changed: [2,5,7]

In this example I moved workspace 1 to the second monitor, which activated workspace 2 on the first monitor and 1 on the second monitor. However, Quickshell only recognized that the workspace on the first monitor changed

[outfoxxed]

Can you tell me how exactly you're moving the workspace? moveworkspacetomonitor doesn't focus the new workspace on another monitor for me.

[Janrupf]

bind=$mainMod, n, movecurrentworkspacetomonitor, l
bind=$mainMod, m, movecurrentworkspacetomonitor, r

This is the relevant part of my Hyprland config. Maybe it has something to do with the relative moving of workspaces.

This works around the issue btw:

  Connections {
    target: Hyprland
    function onRawEvent(event) {
      if (event.name === "moveworkspacev2") {
        Hyprland.refreshWorkspaces();
	Hyprland.refreshMonitors();
      }
    }
  }

[Stinjul]

I have the same issue and the workaround posted also fixed it for me.

For context, I remember ags/astal had the same problem and also apparently fixed it the same way
https://github.com/Aylur/astal/blob/main/lib/hyprland/hyprland.vala#L376