The WindowDoesNotAcceptFocus flag is making me thirsty!!!!!!!

6thC

I don't mind seeing people wanting old bugs sorted and asking for attention on the forums. Being noticed is the only way to get an action.

To bring balance to the force: One thing to highlight an old bug - another thing entirely to argue drop everything for this. I don't want that. I get new things and new things fixed every release... I don't want brakes applied to everything else because they couldn't get to this.

Ridiculing Qt for releasing new versions while this is outstanding is a ridiculous concept itself. And you probably know it, you're passionate to see this fixed, we get it. I do advocate voicing the wish to have this looked at again - just not how.

jsulm

@amonR2 It will not help asking here to fix the bug - this is user forum. You should comment on the bug instead.

raven-worx

@amonR2 said in The WindowDoesNotAcceptFocus flag is making me thirsty!!!!!!!:

Anyway, so far the bug is getting really old, 4 years soon! Please Qt, fix it!! I face the same issue by using C++ on Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 with Qt 5.9 . What's the point to release Qt 5.10 when the previous version which is even not 1 year old can't run the basics? 0_o

Since Qt is open source you are welcome to provide the fix.
If you are not able to do so, i would say be thankful for what you get free of charge.

amonR2

@6thC You call it "Ridiculing", I call it "common sense" or "relevancy". Thank you for your help and contribution.

@raven-worx First: there's nothing free in life.
Second: Qt is not free. Opensource and licensed products don't mean free, far from that.
Third: I am not a Qt API developer, it's not my job.
Don't get mad but here I have a real question for you: would you accept to be slapped for free?

@Snotboogie Thanks a lot for the hint.

Since a solution through Qt does not exist we have to use win32 API for Windows platforms. This function works pretty well for me (windows 8 & 8.1):

setWindowLongPtr(hwnd, GWL_EXSTYLE, WS_EX_NOACTIVATE);

Regarding Linux, setAttribute(Qt::WA_X11DoNotAcceptFocus); was working fine. But only for Qt 4.8, I have not tried it on Qt 5s yet.

lordk

Hi, this bug is still not fixed in Windows 10, right? I´m coding a custom keyboard and I having trouble with the buttons stealing the focus from text inputs like word, notepad, etc.

Regards.

mrjj

@lordk
Hi
Yes its still flagged as unresolved.

lordk

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Mario_Moysen

At least for me is working very fine with PySide6 just by setting up into the MainWindow init function like so: self.setWindowFlags(Qt.FramelessWindowHint | Qt.WindowStaysOnTopHint | Qt.WindowDoesNotAcceptFocus)

deblin

Hi ich versuche das gleiche verhalten unter wayland zu erhalten, aber bekomme es nicht hin :(

from PyQt6.QtWidgets import QApplication, QPushButton, QVBoxLayout, QWidget
from PyQt6.QtCore import Qt
from PyQt6 import QtCore
class TestWidget(QWidget):
  def __init__(self):
      super().__init__()
      self.setWindowFlags(Qt.WindowType.NoDropShadowWindowHint | 
                          Qt.WindowType.FramelessWindowHint | 
                          Qt.WindowType.WindowStaysOnTopHint | 
                          Qt.WindowType.WindowDoesNotAcceptFocus | 
                          Qt.WindowType.BypassWindowManagerHint)
      self.initUI()


  def initUI(self):
      self.button = QPushButton('Button', self)
      self.button.clicked.connect(self.on_button_click)
      layout = QVBoxLayout()
      layout.addWidget(self.button)
      self.setLayout(layout)

#        self.setAttribute(Qt.WidgetAttribute.WA_ForceDisabled, True)
      self.show()

  def on_button_click(self):
      print('Button clicked')

if __name__ == '__main__':
  app = QApplication([])
  w = TestWidget()
  app.exec()

ich hab es mal versucht wie im letzten kommentar angegeben nach oben zu verschieben aber no luck :( gibt es schon eine loesung dafuer ?

jsulm

@deblin Hi! Es gibt Forum in Deutscher Sprache hier: https://forum.qt.io/category/28/german

JonB

@deblin said in The WindowDoesNotAcceptFocus flag is making me thirsty!!!!!!!:

unter wayland zu erhalten

There are several features of a windowing system that Wayland does not allow/support. For example, you cannot move a window to a particular position. Maybe it does not accept this flag? If it works under Xorg but not under Wayland this is probably the case?

deblin

Oh I am sorry the hole website is in german and i forgot about it xD

To be a little more precise it is wayland gnome with kompositor mutter.

i tried it now in native language

#include <QApplication>
#include <QPushButton>
#include <QWidget>

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
    QApplication app(argc, argv);

    QWidget window;
    window.setWindowFlags(Qt::WindowDoesNotAcceptFocus);

    QPushButton button("Click me!", &window);
    QObject::connect(&button, &QPushButton::clicked, [&]() {
        button.setText("You clicked me!");
    });

    window.show();
    return app.exec();
}
but onclick it gets focus :( I wrote a virtuel keyboard that runs fine under x11 but wayland always gives it a focus, therefore i cant use it ....

deblin

i didnt find a soloution only a work-around :(

created a gnomeshell plugin to bounce back focus

{
    "shell-version": ["43.6"],
    "uuid": "myextension@example.com",
    "name": "My Extension",
    "description": "Example Gnome Shell Extension"
}

const Main = imports.ui.main;
const Shell = imports.gi.Shell;

let focusChangedId;
let previousWindow;

function enable() {
    focusChangedId = global.display.connect('notify::focus-window', () => {
        const focusedWindow = global.display.focus_window;
        if (focusedWindow) {
            // Prüfen Sie, ob das fokussierte Fenster das ist, das Sie ignorieren möchten
            if (focusedWindow.get_title() === 'ignorier') {
                // Wenn das der Fall ist, setzen Sie den Fokus zurück auf das vorherige Fenster
                if (previousWindow) {
                    Main.activateWindow(previousWindow);
                }
            } else {
                // Wenn das nicht der Fall ist, aktualisieren Sie das vorherige Fenster
                previousWindow = focusedWindow;
            }
        }
    });
}

function disable() {
    if (focusChangedId) {
        global.display.disconnect(focusChangedId);
        focusChangedId = null;
        previousWindow = null;
    }
}

and switched it on with the python prog

import subprocess

def enable_extension(extension_id):
    subprocess.run(['gnome-extensions', 'enable', extension_id])

def disable_extension(extension_id):
    subprocess.run(['gnome-extensions', 'disable', extension_id])

but this creates other issues :( so I am back too X11 good luck to the next one! 2017 was the first post to this is. I try it in another 5 years ....

Yoho

I've encountered a similar problem. In my case, the widget continually activates and gains focus while being resized. I've set the following properties for the widget:

setWindowFlags(Qt::ToolTip | Qt::FramelessWindowHint | Qt::WindowDoesNotAcceptFocus);
setAttribute(Qt::WA_ShowWithoutActivating);

This issue seems to occur only on Windows, and it doesn't happen before we upgrade to 5.15; I haven't experienced it on MacOS. My solution was to add Qt::BypassWindowManagerHint to the widget, and the widget won't get activated and focused anymore.