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<p>No! Other processes are not allowed to change _net_active_window, see <a href="https://specifications.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-latest.html#idm140200472702304" class="remarkup-link" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://specifications.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-latest.html#idm140200472702304</a></p>
<p>Important quote: "This is a read-only property set by the Window Manager."</p>
<blockquote style="border-left: 3px solid #a7b5bf; color: #464c5c; font-style: italic; margin: 4px 0 12px 0; padding: 4px 12px; background-color: #f8f9fc;"><p>If that happens we need our m_activeWindow to reflect that, otherwise kwin can be out of sync and not send anything.</p></blockquote>
<p>KWin does not detect if a client changes the property directly. Didn't before. If that ever happened it went out of sync. Similar for any other Window Manager property (c.f. events.cpp, search for rootInfo()->event). We don't read them back. I do not see any reason to adjust this.</p>
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<p>No, we cannot. The setActiveWindow method does not store the value. So once you call setActiveWindow, activeWindow has a wrong value till one received the property change and passes it to the NetRootInfo. So no, it's not up-to-date.</p></div></div><br /><div><strong>REPOSITORY</strong><div><div>R108 KWin</div></div></div><br /><div><strong>REVISION DETAIL</strong><div><a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/D7096" rel="noreferrer">https://phabricator.kde.org/D7096</a></div></div><br /><div><strong>To: </strong>graesslin, KWin, Plasma, davidedmundson<br /><strong>Cc: </strong>davidedmundson, plasma-devel, kwin, ZrenBot, progwolff, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, hardening, jensreuterberg, abetts, sebas, apol, mart, lukas<br /></div>