03:18 <Consolatis> but doesn't provide unwanted focus stealing prevention, e.g. every time a BEL is seen the keyboard focus changes to the terminal. using a notification instead requires a further click on the notification whenever the user actually wants to switch the focus (or it can be ignored completely)

04:56 <Consolatis> alternative less invasive solution: just added a random OSC to request activation + small notify-send wrapper: https://gist.github.com/Consolatis/12e51b3766f552297b1a9b976a79e4ea

04:58 <Consolatis> dnkl: any chance to get something like this merged? Obviously would require to actually define a OSC for that, or maybe reuse 777;activate;xdg_token

08:53 <nero> Consolatis: its not foot stealing your focus, probably your window manager

08:54 <nero> s/window manager/compositor/

09:05 <Consolatis> right, because the compositor is not implementing focus-stealing prevention. and if it does, foot is unable to activate itself. the patch above fixes that by allowing a notification to active foot on those compositors

09:07 <Consolatis> s/active/activate/

13:05 <nero> how do you make it that a BEL puts foot to the front

14:04 <nero> i dont see it in the manpage

14:04 <Consolatis> foot -obell.urgent=yes + a compositor that implements the xdg-activation protocol and doesn't do further checks on the activation request (which for some reason is also used for setting a urgent state). Sway used to do that, apparently it can now be configured (focus_on_window_activation).

14:06 <Consolatis> what I am after is to allow foot getting focus when supplied with a valid xdg activation token (which can for example be received via click on a notification from a notification daemon which implements the xdg-activation protocol, mako as example)