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Hi! Does anybody know how to focus a shown window? The app is running in a tray and its window is usually `visible = false`. But a user can trigger window visibility from the tray menu. The shown window is not focused even if it is `alwaysOnTop = true`. Use of `window.requestFocus(), window.toFront()`  didn’t help. What is a proper way to do that? I can’t pass a focus requester to window’s modifier, it doesn’t accept one. This is on MacOS.

`window.toFront()` and then use `FocusRequester` to focus whatever you want to focus in the window.

`window.toFront()` takes no effect. Window remains non-active. It is topmost, there is a caret in a text field I request focus for with `FocusRequester`, but I can’t type there as soon as I show a window. Firstly, I have to click either a window frame or a text field, and only then type there. A window frame remains grey (and not able to consume keyboard input in the focused text filed) until I click it.

For me `window.toFront()` does make the window active

Screen Recording 2024-02-01 at 12.10.54.mp4

Maybe it is because my app is a background application from the start (`Tray` + `LSUIElement = true` for MacOS). Tray menu has `Show window` item. And a user usually have another active application at the moment he/she clicks a `Show window` item from a tray menu.

I will try to create a simple reproducer a bit later.

window-focus-reproducer.zip

<@U04H34VPCJZ> Please take a look on the reproducer.

1. Run the application, wait until the tray icon appears in the top bar.
2. Click on empty space on your Desktop to make sure the currently active app is `Finder`.
3. Go to tray icon and open a window from the tray menu.
4. Its field is not focused.
When the currently active app is NOT `MainKt`, the window never gets focused on showing up. When the currently active app is `MainKt`, the window gets focused exactly half the time.

<@USU7K1K2M> I have the exact same problem as you. Did you found a solution?

See <https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-multiplatform/issues/4231#issuecomment-1952205605>