a newly raised window doesn't get the focus, when a always-on-top windows has the focus

Hi.

Normally, when a new window is raised, e.g. when pressing a keyboard shortcut to open the terminal/calculator/etc. it get's the focus, which makes sense as the user explicitly wanted to start it.

But when at the time the new window is raised another window which is marked to be always on top has the focus, the later will keep that,... which is quite unintuitive.

This seems to happen generally, i.e. not just when windows are raised from a keyboard shortcut, but also e.g. when doing this in a terminal:
$ sleep 5; xman
and then clicking to the always-on-top window.

I don't think that this has to do anything with "focus stealing prevention", as it really only happens when the window is marked always-on-top.

Cheers,
Chris.

Reproduce the issue with sleep 5; xman, then click an always-on-top window before xman opens. Trace Cinnamon's handling of focus for newly raised windows when another always-on-top window has focus. Done means the newly raised window receives focus in this case, both for the terminal example and for windows opened by keyboard shortcuts.