floating application started on the wrong (not focused) monitor

[mm1ke]

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• Sway Version:

  • sway version 1.10

• Debug Log:

  • sway-debug-2024-11-11.log

• Configuration File:

  • http://dpaste.com/958BA7V82.txt

• Description:
  I have a dual monitor setup configured as following:

output DP-1 render_bit_depth 10 pos 0 0 mode [email protected] bg $swaywalls/wallpaper-main fill
output DP-2 pos 3840 -1250 transform 90 mode [email protected] bg $swaywalls/wallpaper-right fill

Since the update to 1.10, sway mixed the workspace and put workspace 1 at monitor DP-2, and workspace 2 at monitor DP-1
I've fixed that with adding following:

workspace 1 output DP-1
workspace 2 output DP-2

However, the focus is still wrong, even with setting focus output DP-1, after the initial login, the mouse appears on DP-2
I'm not sure if that information is relevant, but i thougt i'm going to include it.

The real issue is that usually, $drun should open on the focues monitor. $drun is in my case tofi.
If there are no open application this works as expected, if there is kitty open on both monitor, tofi always open on DP-1 - even if kitty on DP-2 is focus. Starting a application would however open it on the right monitor. It's just that tofi is placed wrong.

Interestingly, this is not always the case. Having for example firefox open on DP-2 would also open tofi correctly on DP-2 (if the focus is there). I made some tests:

DP-1: empty, DP-2: empty -> tofi always starts on focused monitor (expected behavior)
DP-1: kitty, DP-2: empty -> tofi always starts on focused monitor (expected behavior)
DP-1: empty, DP-2: kitty -> tofi always starts on focused monitor (expected behavior)
DP-1: kitty, DP-2: kitty -> tofi always starts on DP-1
DP-1: kitty, DP-2: firefox -> tofi always starts on focused monitor (expected behavior)
DP-1: kitty, DP-2: pcmanfm-qt -> tofi always starts on DP-1
DP-1: kitty, DP-2: spicy (floating app) -> tofi always starts on DP-1

Another interesting thing is that if i change tofi with something else like spicy - which is another floating app - it seems to work as expected. (but I haven't test too much)

Not sure it the debug logs helps, i've tried to test a few times the behavior while it was running.
Unfortunately this is also a regression of 1.10. There are no issues with 1.9. Please let me know if you need any further information.

[emersion]

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[mukul1729]

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I am sorry if you didnt find it right, sway is great and I still use it as my daily driver but I will share the whole workflow video please take a look.

1. Before 1.10 the workspace 1 was my laptop and workspace 2 was my Monitor. When the system would start all my applications would open only on workspace 2 which is my monitor but as u can see its actually mirroring everything i do on both the displays

2. You can see in the video that i cannot interact with anything on my monitor using the mouse pointer , i have to get the pointer to my laptop screen first and only then i can interact with anything, I only use the defaults sway settings and no custom config for workspaces.

3. Cannot send any window to any other output. Everything works when i run the command swaymsg reload.
   https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7a0ff8a1-a67b-42f9-b2ce-7b63944a4da6