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Status: Archived
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Closed: May 2018
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OS: Linux
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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Chrome should take focus (and switch to the EWMH workspace that contains it) when opening an external link

Reported by ivanmali...@gmail.com, Apr 6 2017

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3013.3 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
Open a link from some workspace (using XMonad/i3 or some other EWMH window manager) while chrome is in another workspace.

Alternatively, use https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/windows#method-update
sending (windowId, {"focused": true})

What is the expected behavior?
Chrome (and the workspace that contains it) should have the focus of the window manager. This would be accomplished most easily (and in a way that allows user configurability) by setting the _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW property from EWMH See https://specifications.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-latest.html#idm140200472702304

What went wrong?
Chrome does not set _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW as far as I can tell.

Did this work before? No 

Chrome version: 58.0.3013.3  Channel: dev
OS Version: 4.9 (Arch Linux)
Flash Version:
 
Labels: Needs-Triage-M58
Labels: -Needs-Triage-M58 TE-NeedsTriageHelp
This issue seems to be out of TE-scope. Hence, adding label TE-NeedsTriageHelp for further investigation.

Thanks...!!
What does that mean?

Comment 4 by p...@chromium.org, May 28 2017

I think this may be related to  issue 727164 .
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Comment 5 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, May 29 2018

Status: Archived (was: Unconfirmed)
Issue has not been modified or commented on in the last 365 days, please re-open or file a new bug if this is still an issue.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot

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