bug: Window focus wraps around, moving west from leftmost window on 90° rotated display

[torgeir]

With a dual screen setup like this

+----------++-------+
| a        || b     |
|          ||       |
+----------+|       |
            |       |
            |       |
            +-------+

The following command, executed from the rightmost window in a, exits with code 1

❯ yabai -m window --focus east
could not locate a eastward managed window.
❯ echo $?
1

..making it a great candidate for chaining, e.g. like this yabai -m window --focus east || yabai -m display --focus east to move focus to display b

However, the opposite, ran from the leftmost window on the 90° rotated display b exits with code 0

❯ yabai -m window --focus west
❯ echo $?
0

..and instead "wraps" the focus to the last window on display b.

Edit:

This is on yabai-v5.0.1

[torgeir]

I am not experiencing this any longer with yabai-v5.0.2.

Edit: That is using the following skhdrc keymaps which again work as expected

alt - h: yabai -m window --focus west || yabai -m display --focus west
alt - l: yabai -m window --focus east || yabai -m display --focus east

[torgeir]

Either this has returned or I misunderstood the details of what was failing the last time around, cause you will not experience the following if you only have one window on each of the displays.

Here's some more details:

With displays a and b, b rotated 90°, and windows w and w' in a vertical split;
Starting with the selected window w', using the key binding alt-h moves w' to w to a, like I would expect.

a            b
+----------++-------+
|          || w | w'|
|          ||   |   |
+----------+|   |   |
            |   |   |
            |   |   |
            +-------+

With displays a and b, b rotated 90°, and windows w and w' in a horizontal split;
Starting with the selected window w', using the key binding alt-h moves w' to w and continues cycling w' and w, never reaching display a, this was unexpected to me.

a            b
+----------++-------+
|          || w     |
|          ||       |
+----------+|-------|
            | w'    |
            |       |
            +-------+

I would expect the movement to go directly from w' to display a

This is yabai-v5.0.4

[slam]

I experienced a similar issue, and I hope my workaround can help you as well.

Upon briefly examining the code, I suspected that the slight overlapping of windows was triggering a bug related to window focus management. By introducing a small gap between the windows, my specific issue was resolved.

I set my window gap to 5:

yabai -m config window_gap 5

[koekeishiya]

I was unable to reproduce this specific issue, but I have fixed an off-by-one issue on master that caused a similar issue: #1463 (comment)

[koekeishiya]

Probably fixed in v5.0.5. Feel free to reopen if you can reproduce the issue in the new version.

[torgeir]

Works like a charm, thanks!