xdg-open an url does not switch focus to window

[pengux]

When opening a URL from terminal with xdg-open https://archlinux.org for example, the URL is opened in the default browser (Firefox) but sway does not switch focus to the window. If the browser is in workspace 2 and the terminal is at workspace 1, then focus is still on workspace 1 on the terminal.

• Sway Version: sway version 1.2

[FreeFull]

I believe this is intentional, since sway's behaviour matches i3's behaviour here. The browser window and the workspace do get marked as urgent if the browser is running under Xwayland (urgency currently isn't supported for native wayland clients)

[emersion]

Yes, this is expected behavior.

To raise the browser's window when clicking on a link (which is separate from this use-case), there's a proposal on wayland-devel: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2019-October/040930.html