alacritty doesn't takes focus

[Magikh42]

Distribution

CachyOS

Package version

6.6.0-1.1

Graphics hardware in use

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

Frequency

Always

Bug description

Before 6.6.0 Alacritty (terminal emulator) takes focus after launch
After all windows continue to takes focus as expected except Alacritty
This happens when I use the launch terminal shortcut (set to ctrl+enter) and also when launching from menu or an other terminal

Steps to reproduce

• Upgrade cinnamon / muffin to 6..6.0
• Launcg Alacritty

Expected behavior

Alacritty should take focus

Additional information

This is a muffin bug (not a cinnamon bug) because downgrading muffin solves this issue

[Loosefish]

Same thing happens for me on Arch. .xsession-errors is showing the following when starting alacritty.

Window manager warning: Window 0x4800003 has property _NET_STARTUP_ID
that was expected to have type UTF8_STRING format 8
and actually has type STRING format 8 n_items 0.
This is most likely an application bug, not a window manager bug.
The window has title="unknown" class="unknown" name="unknown"

[leigh123linux]

The issue doesn't reproduce on fedora.

$ rpm -q muffin cinnamon alacritty
muffin-6.6.0-1.fc43.x86_64
cinnamon-6.6.2-2.fc43.x86_64
alacritty-0.16.1-1.fc43.x86_64

[bluz71]

I also have an Arch Linux machine with a key-binding (Super-Enter) to launch Alacritty. I can confirm I have the same not focus issue.

If I use Gnome Terminal instead, focus is automatically gained, but not with Alacritty (0.16.1-1).

Muffin version 6.6.0-2.

I am sure this used to work, it still does on my Linux Mint 22.2 machine.

I hope either Muffin or Alacritty can be fixed since it really does effect usability.