[Bug]: Focus Bottom Window hotkey focuses wrong window

[jsjuris89]

Summary

Meta + K or Focus Bottom Window doesn't go to correct window, rest Focus hotkeys work as expected.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Tile Layout 2
2. 4 windows open
3. Try go from top window to bottom window
4. Goes wrong (see screenshot)

Expected behavior

Should go to bottom window.

Screenshots

Pressing Meta + K on 1st window goes to 4th (should go 2nd) window.
Pressing Meta + K on 3rd window goes to 2nd (should go 4th) window

Bismuth version

AUR - kwin-bismuth 2.2.0-1

KDE Plasma version

5.23.4

The platform KWin is running on

X11

Additional context

No response

[gikari]

Cannot reproduce, but It is possible, that this behavior could break due to #209 or #208.
If anyone else could reproduce and/or make more precise instructions on how to reproduce (there might be a difference in our configurations, that prevents reproducing), I will take a look.

[gikari]

@jsjuris89 Could you reproduce your issue with #222 applied?

[jsjuris89]

@gikari I could try. What I need to do?

[gikari]

Since it was just merged, you need to:

1. Remove AUR version.
2. Run these (make sure you have NPM installed):

   git clone https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth.git
   cd bismuth
   npm install # Installs dependencies for building
   npm run sysdep-install # Install system dependencies for building
   npm run bi-install # Installs all Bismuth components

3. Try to reproduce the bug.

You may want to roll back to the AUR version after that, to do that, uninstall the Bismuth with:

npm run bi-uninstall

[jsjuris89]

@gikari I got this error:

[elnath@elnath-ryzen bismuth]$ npm run sysdep-install

> [email protected] sysdep-install
> scripts/sysdep-install.sh

⛓️ Installing system dependencies...
⚠ Your distribution is EndeavourOS, but you have to install system dependencies manually.
[elnath@elnath-ryzen bismuth]$

[gikari]

@gikari I got this error:

[elnath@elnath-ryzen bismuth]$ npm run sysdep-install

> [email protected] sysdep-install
> scripts/sysdep-install.sh

⛓️ Installing system dependencies...
⚠ Your distribution is EndeavourOS, but you have to install system dependencies manually.
[elnath@elnath-ryzen bismuth]$

You can open an issue about it. For now, just execute this:

      sudo pacman -S --noconfirm --needed \
        cmake ninja extra-cmake-modules

Then continue with the rest of commands.

[jsjuris89]

@gikari Ok I did that. Still have same bug.

[gikari]

I forgot to mention, that you need to restart kwin with:

kwin_x11 --replace & disown

If you didn't do that, the Bismuth script is not up-to-date.
You can of course log in and log out to do the same.

[jsjuris89]

@gikari I tried both log out and the command above. Still same behaviour. Only Focus bottom window is bugged.
Here is additional info:

If I keep pressing Meta + K it goes from 1 -> 4 -> 3 -> 2 -> 1

[gikari]

This is really weird. It's very similar to the behavior of the "Previous Window" shortcut. Are you sure Meta K is bound correctly?

You can check it by going to "System Setting" > "Shortcuts" > "KWin" and filtering the results by "Bismuth" keyword.

[jsjuris89]

@gikari Alright, we getting closer, this is what I found in hotkeys:

So I reassigned Meta K to Bottom Window.

The problem is that hotkey is not working. Pressing Meta + K does nothing.

Edit1: But setting it to Meta + N for example, the hotkey is working. Just Meta + K is NOT working. Any ideas why that is so?

[gikari]

KWin shortcuts can be buggy when reassigning from old shortcuts. Close and reopen the same shortcut dialog and check if the shortcut is bound.

Edit (in response to sudden Edit): You could try the rebinding to Meta + K again with the double check from above.

[jsjuris89]

Yes, I cleared Focus bottom window to no hotkey, hit applied. And tried again Meta + K now it works. So the problem was not in the bismuth but there are some bugs in System Setting > Shurtcuts ? @gikari

[gikari]

I don't know, lol. The rebinding from one shortcut to another was random and from what I checked, there isn't anything, that could cause that in the Bismuth code base.

Could you please report the non-applying-rebinding bug to upstream kwin and link it here? You need to go to https://bugs.kde.org to do that.

KWin shortcuts can be buggy when reassigning from old shortcuts. Close and reopen the same shortcut dialog and check if the shortcut is bound.

[jsjuris89]

Could you please report the non-applying-rebinding bug to upstream kwin and link it here?

Sure I can try, but tomorrow sleep time now.

Yeah its weird. Move Window Down command also has no hotkey.