Applications Windows Bug

Since the last update I am having an issue with application windows, if I click on a browser window after having just had the email window active, the activities bar still shows the email is active, so I can’t type in the browser. This happens with all apps, the activities will either show nothing or the last active application. The only way around it I have found is to put each active application in a separate desktop window and superkey between the environments. That way there is only one active application, so it can’t show the last app I was using. Although, this is not perfect, as it still sometimes shows nothing and I have to click several times to get the app to appear active in the activities bar. Any help on how to solve this or if there is something I am missing would be gratefully received.

Hi @Spec, and welcome!

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:bangbang: Tip: :bangbang:

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Thereby improving legibility and making it much easier for those trying to be of assistance.


:bangbang::bangbang: Additionally

If your language isn’t English, please prepend any and all terminal commands with LC_ALL=C. For example:

LC_ALL=C bluetoothctl

This will just cause the terminal output to be in English, making it easier to understand and debug.

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Have you tried clearing the cache?

rm --force --recursive ~/.cache/*

I don’t usually suggest or even think this, but it IS the first thing I thought of on reading your post.

This sound behavior in this thread: Window Focus Issue in Gnome? - #15 by Tian
If not please provide more data (see above)

Thank you, both. @Hanzel I think that could be it, or related, so I think I will just wait for the next update, rather than mess around with things.