Ashell steals focus by mouse over in hyprland

[dr0bz]

Setup

ashell: 0.10.0 (95cb69e)

hyprland: 0.56.0

Hyprland 0.56.0 built from branch main at commit 7ebf13abb3c391604c60c9f627c7a403bcec8d17 clean (screencopy/toplevel: fix top level capture ( 16132)). Date: Mon Sep 7 13:38:00 2026 Tag: v0.56.0-177-g7ebf13abb, commits: 7802

Libraries:
Hyprgraphics: built against 0.5.1, system has 0.5.1
Hyprutils: built against 0.14.2, system has 0.14.2
Hyprcursor: built against 0.1.13, system has 0.1.13
Hyprlang: built against 0.6.8, system has 0.6.8
Aquamarine: built against 0.15.0, system has 0.15.0

Version ABI string: 7ebf13abb3c391604c60c9f627c7a403bcec8d17_aq_0.15_hu_0.14_hg_0.5_hc_0.1_hlg_0.6
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Problem

If the mouse goes over the ashell bar, the window on the same workspace cannot be focused anymore (you can interact with the window, but keyboard focus is lost). A switch to another workspace brings the focus back to the window.

• i tried different options of hyprland follow_mouse - no changes
• i think this is related Shell loses focus and can't be focused again until mouse movement occurs after opening event hyprwm/Hyprland#13116 - the fix was on the app side, not hyprland.

P.S.: thanks for the great status bar!

[MalpenZibo]

Hum... it seems like an hyprland bug. I will try to understand if there's something that I can do to resolve the issue

[romanstingler]

@dr0bz have you set
enable_esc_key in the ashell config file??

can you test my fix .
you have to build it yourself,
here the instructions

cd /tmp && mkdir debug && cd debug
git clone https://github.com/romanstingler/ashell.git
cd ashell 
git checkout fix/bar-keyboard-focus-leak
cargo r

[dr0bz]

@dr0bz have you set enable_esc_key in the ashell config file??

can you test my fix . you have to build it yourself, here the instructions

cd /tmp && mkdir debug && cd debug
git clone https://github.com/romanstingler/ashell.git
cd ashell 
git checkout fix/bar-keyboard-focus-leak
cargo r

Works! Tested with enable_esc_key and without.

Thank you!

[dr0bz]

You better close it:)