Invoking any hotkey temporarily loses window focus

[kleutzinger]

Observed behavior:

I have this configured in my .sxhkdrc:

F2
    notify-send "hi"

Example:

Pressing F2 unfocuses (a.k.a. blurs) the window and then refocuses. It doesn't matter what the command is, the same behavior happens if the command is, say sleep 2. (Note: the keypress overlay and notfication are not grabbing focus themselves, they are for demonstrative purposes. even without the overlay/notif focus is still grabbed by sxhkd upon hotkey invocation)

Expected behavior:
Maintain focus on the active window (in this case, firefox) while sxhkd and the ensuing command is invoked.

Here a site to test window focus: https://www.proginosko.com/test/WindowFocusEvents.html

my specs:

~ ❯ sxhkd -v
0.6.2


                    /-                      kevin@think0 
                   ooo:                     ------------ 
                  yoooo/                    OS: ArcoLinux 
                 yooooooo                   Host: 20FAS4EG00 ThinkPad T460s 
                yooooooooo                  Kernel: 6.5.7-arch1-1 
               yooooooooooo                 Uptime: 1 day, 1 hour, 15 mins 
             .yooooooooooooo                Packages: 2013 (pacman), 7 (nix-user) 
            .oooooooooooooooo               Shell: fish 3.6.1 
           .oooooooarcoooooooo              Resolution: 2560x1440 
          .ooooooooo-oooooooooo             DE: Xfce 4.18 
         .ooooooooo-  oooooooooo            WM: Xfwm4 
        :ooooooooo.    :ooooooooo           WM Theme: Arc-Dark 
       :ooooooooo.      :ooooooooo          Theme: Adwaita-dark [GTK2], Arc-Dark [GTK3] 
      :oooarcooo         .oooarcooo         Icons: Adwaita [GTK2], Sardi-Arc [GTK3] 
     :ooooooooy           .ooooooooo        Terminal: kitty 
    :ooooooooo   /ooooooooooooooooooo       CPU: Intel i7-6600U (4) @ 3.400GHz 
   :ooooooooo      .-ooooooooooooooooo.     GPU: Intel Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520] 
  ooooooooo-             -ooooooooooooo.    Memory: 4.88GiB / 19.27GiB (25%) 
 ooooooooo-                 .-oooooooooo.   GPU Driver: i915 
ooooooooo.                     -ooooooooo   CPU Usage: 33% 
                                            Disk (/): 150G / 469G (34%) 
                                            Font: Noto Sans 13 [GTK2], Noto Sans 11 [GTK3]