Dunno if this is Wayland, Thunderbird, Firefox or KDE causing this issue but in the past few days I’ve been giving Wayland a go. Been much snappier and no issues but for Firefox not taking focus when I open web links in Thunderbird.
When I use Thunderbird with X and click on a link, Firefox will correctly grab focus and open the link.
Using Wayland, clicking a link in Thunderbird correctly opens the link in Firefox however Firefox stays minimised or drawn behind the other windows. My dock (KDE panel set to “Windows can cover”) also does not pop up like it normally would if I’ve opened something but it’s in the background. It stays hidden and I have to mouse over it to see that the Firefox icon is highlighted.
I’ve tried opening links from the Steam client and Firefox correctly takes focus from there so it so far seems to be just Thunderbird links not opening correctly in Firefox. I haven’t been able to find anything in KDE’s settings that would affect only Thunderbird.
It’s a minor annoyance but obviously I would like to fix it if possible and continue using Wayland given that, for me, it’s noticeably faster than X.
OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Kernel: 6.6.10-arch1-1
DE: Plasma 5.27.10
WM: kwin
Display Server: Wayland 1.22.0-1
GPU: AMD ATI Radeon RX 6800 XT
Thunderbird 115.6.1, Firefox 121.0.1.
TIA!
Maybe Firefox, Thunderbird or Steam are running in XWayland and that causes different behaviour between them. Just guessing.
I thought that too but if you see my edits above, I tried several different app combos, and it’s not consistent. I tried setting Chromium as my default browser (it opened all links and took focus correctly every time) and when I switched Firefox back to the default browser, Firefox didn’t take focus from Steam even though it did originally 🤦🏻♀️