Weird behaviour with movefocus and cyclenext

[Aniruddha-Upadhya-K]

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Regression?

I don't know, I started using Hyprland only recently

System Info and Hyprland Version

System/Version info

• OS: NixOS 25.05.20250108.bffc22e (Warbler) x86_64
• WM: Hyprland (Wayland)

Hyprland 0.46.2 built from branch v0.46.2-b at commit 0bd541f2fd902dbfa04c3ea2ccf679395e316887  (version: bump to 0.46.2).
Date: 2024-12-19
Tag: v0.46.2, commits: 0bd541f2fd902dbfa04c3ea2ccf679395e316887
built against:
 aquamarine 0.5.1
 hyprlang 0.6.0
 hyprutils 0.3.0
 hyprcursor 0.1.11
 hyprgraphics 0.1.1


flags set:
debug


System Information:
System name: Linux
Node name: nixos
Release: 6.6.69
Version: #1-NixOS SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Jan  2 09:32:11 UTC 2025


GPU information:
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Picasso/Raven 2 [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series] [1002:15d8] (rev c4) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])


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BUILD_ID="25.05.20250108.bffc22e"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:nixos:nixos:25.05"
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plugins:

Description

Hi, I'm new to hyprland, and writing bash scripts from ground up. I wanted something like this.

• If I am in tiling mode (not fullscreen) then I want to move through windows with movefocus {l,r,u,d} to move left, right, up, down with respect to current active window.
• But when I am in fullscreen (maximise: fullsceen, 1) then I want to move through windows as cyclenext which loops to all the windows in sequence, with same keybinds as before.

So I tried to write my own script for this as I did not find any references, and this is what I came up with:

if ! hyprctl -j activeworkspace | jq $ARGS.hasfullscreen; then
    case "$1" in 
        left|down)
            hyprctl dispatch cyclenext prev
            ;;
        right|up)
            hyprctl dispatch cyclenext
            ;;
   esac
else
    case "$1" in
        left) 
            hyprctl dispatch movefocus l
            ;;
        right) 
            hyprctl dispatch movefocus r
            ;;
        up) 
            hyprctl dispatch movefocus u
            ;;
        down) 
            hyprctl dispatch movefocus d
            ;;
    esac
fi
exit 0

and assigning my keybind as

bind = $mainMod, H, exec, hyprland-extend left
bind = $mainMod, L, exec, hyprland-extend right
bind = $mainMod, K, exec, hyprland-extend up
bind = $mainMod, J, exec, hyprland-extend down

But the outcome is hyprland-extend left behaves differently than hyprland-extend down in fullscreen, even though both should run same command, hyprctl dispatch cyclenext prev. But looks like hyprland-extend left is running hyprctl dispatch movefocus l even in fullscreen mode.

How to reproduce

1. run above script with left flag in fullscreen mode

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• Hyprland config - hyprctl systeminfo -c (always include)
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Additional info & File uploads

hyprland_config_dump.txt