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Closing the window of a multi-window app doesn't trigger context reevaluation #361
Description
Setup: Linux + i3 (irrelevant?) + probably any app capable of opening multiple windows (tested with Anki, Firefox, Gimp, Libreoffice at least).
When I focus the app, a line in events.tail appears, e.g.:
main | win.focus app=firefox exe=/usr/lib/firefox/firefox title='New Issue · talonvoice/talon — Mozilla Firefox'
Opening a new window (i.e. Ctrl+N in Firefox for me) produces another line:
main | win.focus app=firefox exe=/usr/lib/firefox/firefox title='Mozilla Firefox'
But closing it does nothing, even though I'd expect the first line to repeat. And experiments suggest the context reevaluation indeed doesn't get triggered.
I noticed (and discarded) this about a month ago (my TODO list says 2021-06-21); before that, it worked fine, so the regression may have been introduced some time around that point.
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lunixbochs commentedon Sep 17, 2021
Can anyone reproduce this on a WM besides i3?
RichardHladik commentedon May 2, 2022
I've finally got around to test this with different WMs. The results are… kind of confusing.
WMs that have this bug (= when e.g. opening and closing a new window many times in Firefox, only the "focus the new window" events get registered):
WMs that don't have this bug:
Also with some WMs, when I opened and closed the window fast enough, I actually got the old window in the output, but I guess that's a race condition between the "focus changed" event firing and getting the info about the currently focused window.
Soo… it mostly seems like the more "old-school" WMs have this bug but the more modern ones do not? I don't know what to make of this.
lunixbochs commentedon Jul 11, 2023
is this actually still happening?
RichardHladik commentedon Jul 22, 2023
Can confirm this still happens as of Talon 0.3.1-744-g08ea + i3-4.22, on Linux, X11. Did the same test and got the same behaviour as in the first comment.
lunixbochs commentedon Jul 22, 2023
how is firefox installed?
RichardHladik commentedon Jul 22, 2023
Using
pacman, i.e. no funky business with containers. Also rechecked this happens with other programs (gimp, pcmanfm, libreoffice).Also if after closing the second window, the focus goes to a different application (i.e. a terminal), then the line in events.tail appears. It's only when the focus stays on the same application (but different window) after closing that this bug seems to occur.
lunixbochs commentedon Jul 22, 2023
fixed in beta 751
lunixbochs commentedon Jul 22, 2023
@RichardHladik 751 beta is out, retest if you don't mind
RichardHladik commentedon Jul 22, 2023
Indeed, now it works. Thanks!