Can't use keyboard to close popups if the current group has applications

[chadcatlett]

Using this example if I'm on a group that has applications on it, hitting escape will not close the popup. I have to switch to an empty group then escape will close the pop-up.

My config is just a slight modification of the default config, I've put it in a gist.

I'm not sure if this is an extras thing or a qtile thing, but I figured I'd start here.

[elParaguayo]

Thanks. I'll take a look when I can.

[elParaguayo]

I think this is the current expected behaviour. Keyboard controls are only available when it's possible to navigate items on the popup. That example has no focusable controls and so keyboard control is disabled. Clicking on the popup should still close it.

[chadcatlett]

The _PopupLayout base class does a define Escape to be close, which works on an empty tag. It's only when there is other content visually below the popup that there are issues.

I was curious, should the resulting X11 window created for the popup have any kind of NET_WM_STATE or NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE atoms?

I also noticed in qtile shell if I use focus() on the window object for the popup, then escape will close it. I'll be honest I don't know much about qtile's backend, but it reminds me of Z-axis issues with object picking in 3d application development. I did notice that inspect() on the window crashes because self._wm_class attribute is missing on the Window.

[elParaguayo]

Thanks. Agree that this does sound like a window focusing issue. I'll take a proper look when I can.