Issue Report: Steam notifications stealing/breaking text focus.

[[TMMP] fenixkane]

While typing something into Konversation (my IRC client), if a Steam notification appears (eg. friend is playing game-a) it steals the text focus and puts it onto the Steam window. Basically it stops keyboard presses being entered into Konversation and starts keyboard presses being entered into the Steam window, so if a game is highlighted in the Library section of Steam and hit enter when this occurs it would launch the game in Steam instead of sending an IRC message in Konversation. The only way to restore focus after that is to focus on some other window and then refocus on the Konversation's window.

A similar bug happens when chatting with a friend in Steam's chat windows. I'm typing in a Steam chat window, a notification appears, and then I lose text focus in the Steam chat window. The way this differs from the first bug however is that the focus is only lost when the notification is ending (sliding back down off-screen) whereas with Konversation it is the moment the notification appears.

I've tested to see if this happens in other situations, such as while typing a google search or typing in gedit. It does not occur in these situations.

I hope I've described the bug clearly.

And now for my system information:

Processor Information:
Vendor: AuthenticAMD
Speed: 3500 Mhz
4 logical processors
4 physical processors
HyperThreading: Unsupported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Supported
SSE41: Unsupported
SSE42: Unsupported

Network Information:
Network Speed:

Operating System Version:
Ubuntu 12.10 (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 3.5.0-18-generic
X Server vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server release: 11300000

Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 560 Ti/PCIe/SSE2

Driver Version: 4.3.0 NVIDIA 310.14
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
VendorID: 0x10de
DeviceID: 0x1200
Number of Monitors: 1
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
Primary Display Resolution: 1440 x 900
Desktop Resolution: 1440 x 900
Primary Display Size: 16.06" x 10.04" (18.94" diag)
40.8cm x 25.5cm (48.1cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
Primary VRAM: 1023 MB
Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x 16x

Sound card:
Audio device: Realtek ALC1200

Memory:
RAM: 7986 Mb

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
LANG: en_US.UTF-8
Microphone: Not set
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 927475 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 454234 Mb

Installed software:

[Vash]

I can reproduce this issue on my Archlinux x64 system. It seems to only happen in Qt environments such as KDE.

[scott_test123]

Thanks. We have this in our bug list and will be fixing it.

[STrRedWolf (Linux)]

I also commented on this here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/882966056676676195/?tscn=1354842756 It's very wide-spread.

[[CIR]Sten_Gun]

This bug also minimizes your game window when you're playing and someone is sending you chat messages. I'm using Gnome 3 as DE.

[Walnut]

I have all of the above issues on Arch x64 w/ KDE, everything up to date. It's very annoying because it makes using the Friends feature almost unusable

Looking forward to a fix

[Raymond Tracer]

Yeah, happens on Kubuntu, annoying as ♥♥♥♥

[skedar]

Happens as well on Lubuntu 12.10

[SkaarjZR]

I confirm this.
Ubuntu with Unity.
Steam notification minimizes current running game. So I cannot restore it and I need to restart game.

[PaSTE]

I would also like to confirm this. I see the same behavior as SkaarjZR when playing Team Fortress 2: the game actually minimizes to bring the Steam window to the front whenever a notification appears.

Running Ubuntu 12.10 with GNOME 3.6.1.

[Flaming Sapz]

+1, on ArchLinux XFCE

[[S.A.C.T] Alwar]

It happens to me, but i think only once...
I was searching something in firefox, and when a friend talked to me, it started to write to the chat window instead of in the firefox search box..

Operating System Version:
Debian GNU/Linux testing (wheezy) (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 3.2.0-4-amd64
X Server vendor: The X.Org Foundation
My DM is Fluxbox

[Bugamn]

Same here, with Unity.


Processor Information:
Vendor: GenuineIntel
Speed: 3325 Mhz
4 logical processors
3 physical processors
HyperThreading: Supported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Unsupported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported

Network Information:
Network Speed:

Operating System Version:
Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 3.2.0-34-generic
X Server vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server release: 11103000

Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 460/PCIe/SSE2

Driver Version: 4.3.0 NVIDIA 310.14
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 59 Hz
VendorID: 0x10de
DeviceID: 0xe22
Number of Monitors: 1
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
Primary Display Resolution: 1680 x 1050
Desktop Resolution: 1680 x 1050
Primary Display Size: 18,62" x 11,65" (21,93" diag)
47,3cm x 29,6cm (55,7cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
Primary VRAM: 767 MB
Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x 16x

Sound card:
Audio device: Realtek ALC889A

Memory:
RAM: 12014 Mb

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
Microphone: Not set
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 196821 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 17280 Mb

Installed software:

Recent Failure Reports:

[immanetize]

Originally posted by scott_test123:

Thanks. We have this in our bug list and will be fixing it.

Thanks Scott!

Are there any plans to use libnotify for Steam notifications?