Keyboard focus does not pass on Windows 11
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Description
Some Windows GUI applications (e.g., calc.exe) do not get keyboard focus when started from mintty on msys2 on windows 11.
This has been reported previously but mintty on cygwin on Windows 11 is immune to this issue. Therefore, this issue may belong here.
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Research direction
Begin by reproducing the focus failure with calc.exe launched from mintty on MSYS2 under Windows 11, then compare the behavior with mintty on Cygwin. Trace the MSYS2 runtime entry point used when launching the GUI application; done means the application receives keyboard focus consistently.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- c
- Domain
- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100