Close the open pane on Escape #17

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opened 2026-08-16 23:11:22 +01:00 by joshquinlan · 1 comment

joshquinlan commented

2026-08-16 23:11:22 +01:00

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Split out of #15, which fixed everything except this.

A pane is a PopupWindow and is never given the keyboard, so the
key has nowhere to land. The attempt that failed was a layer
surface holding the keyboard exclusively: it pinned focus, so
the compositor never saw focus leave, the grab never cleared,
and no pane could be dismissed by any means.

The route that does not touch focus is a non-consuming Hyprland
bind (the n flag), added when a pane opens and removed when it
closes, so Escape still reaches applications the rest of the
time and no bind is left behind if the shell dies. Worth
checking hyprctl keyword bindn and unbind behave under the Lua
configuration before committing to it.

Split out of #15, which fixed everything except this. A pane is a PopupWindow and is never given the keyboard, so the key has nowhere to land. The attempt that failed was a layer surface holding the keyboard exclusively: it pinned focus, so the compositor never saw focus leave, the grab never cleared, and no pane could be dismissed by any means. The route that does not touch focus is a non-consuming Hyprland bind (the n flag), added when a pane opens and removed when it closes, so Escape still reaches applications the rest of the time and no bind is left behind if the shell dies. Worth checking hyprctl keyword bindn and unbind behave under the Lua configuration before committing to it.

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joshquinlan commented

2026-08-22 18:59:30 +01:00

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Moved to donbox#4 as part of the rewrite.

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2026-08-22 18:59:30 +01:00