Changing to empty workspace on another monitor doesn't unfocus current window

[Dregu]

Hyprland version

v0.50.1

Describe the bug

When changing to an empty workspace on another monitor, the current window on the previous monitor should be unfocused, even if there is no window to focus on the new monitor. This doesn't currently happen, instead the window focus stays.

It's only confusing that my keyboard input still goes to a different monitor on the other side of the table, when I've just asked to focus nothing. It's especially bad when that window is a remote desktop inhibiting shortcuts and it's eating my binds I'm trying to use on the empty workspace. (And these are binds I want to pass to the remote desktop, but only when it's focused.)

Also, since focusmonitor [any_empty_non-current_one] seems to actually be one of the only ways to unfocus everything (i.e. only way to call g_pCompositor->focusWindow(nullptr)), I've had to make some very weird voodoo* script to accomplish this. Adding a focuswindow null type of dispatcher would also help escape focus from inhibiting windows, but there should also be an option to unfocus when changing to an empty workspace. Maybe even a follow_mouse option when moved to an empty monitor.

(*There's also a discrepancy in the way focusmonitor only unfocuses the current window if it's dispatched from a different monitor, which just adds to the amount of voodoo required to simply unfocus a window...)

Reproduction steps

1. Open empty workspace on monitor B
2. Focus any window on monitor A
3. Change to empty workspace on monitor B
4. Window focus stays on monitor A, bad

[Vladimir-csp]

Possibly related issue: when a window is opened on unfocused monitor (workspace N silent window rule, previously empty workspace), I am unable to switch to it using keyboard (workspace, N, focusmonitor, +1).

[Vladimir-csp]

Not sure if something has changed on 0.52.2, or I didn't check it earlier, but I can get focus to the new window with focusmonitor, +1, and cyclenext (but not with workspace N, cyclenext), so here is a clunky workaround.

[alexd2580]

Also related problem - you can moveworkspacesilent the last window on a workspace into a different workspace (empty or not) and continue typing in that window, it doesn't lost focus, even when you don't see it. It only loses focus once the mouse touches another window that gains focus.