Tilix: Tilix don't getting the focus when open in Quake mode.

Created on 20 May 2018 · 11Comments · Source: gnunn1/tilix

So it happened me plenty of times that Tilix console doesn't get the focus when I open it in Quake mode. This is particularly bad when I'm using a browser, specially sites like Jira and Gmail, because single keys do actions on them, what will happen is that I will be in one of those sites, open Tilix and start writting and all kind of things will happen in the sites (deleted emails, moved tasks), even with just a few key pressed. And even when I'm not in those sites, I often use ctrl-r to search previous command in bash, but that in Firefox will cause a reload of a page, which several times caused me to lose text I was writing in it.

Fixing this will also probably fix or improve this: https://github.com/gnunn1/tilix/issues/1301

For the record, this happens with "Always on top" option enabled.

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guillefar

Most helpful comment

I have been able to workaround this by disabling the "focus stealing feature", following this issue comment: https://github.com/gnunn1/tilix/issues/895#issuecomment-385275324

juanjol on 12 Jun 2018

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If you disable the overlay scrollbar in Preferences | Appearance does it make any difference?

gnunn1 on 20 May 2018

No, it doesn't. I restarted the laptop to be sure Tilix was closed for good, but no change.

guillefar on 20 May 2018

I'm not able to reproduce, it's working fine here which doesn't help you much I realize. What DE are you using, Gnome?

gnunn1 on 20 May 2018

KDE 5, though it happens also in Budgie too.

guillefar on 20 May 2018

Note I do not support KDE or Budgie DEs, just Gnome. Having said that, I have some thoughts with regards to a few things that may help. If you are willing to be a guinea pig and try a few experimental builds let me know.

gnunn1 on 20 May 2018

Absolutely, glad to help. Let me know how to beta test it.

guillefar on 21 May 2018

I'm also having this issue after a recent apt update, and would be willing to guinea pig.

bushong1 on 25 May 2018

I have been able to workaround this by disabling the "focus stealing feature", following this issue comment: https://github.com/gnunn1/tilix/issues/895#issuecomment-385275324

juanjol on 12 Jun 2018

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Thanks @juanjol , that helped a lot.

guillefar on 13 Jun 2018

@juanjol Yes! Ubuntu 18.04 - KDE Plasma - works a charm!