#359 Focus the message box when the window regains focus

[Anonymous]

Originally created by: kristofferR

Problem

When you switch back to Carrier (Cmd/Alt+Tab, clicking the Dock or tray icon, the global hotkey), focus is wherever it was, often nowhere, so typing goes nowhere until you click the message box. This was the top feature request in Goofy ([danielbuechele/goofy#322](https://github.com/danielbuechele/goofy/issues/322), 10 reactions).

Design

• On window focus, if a conversation is open and nothing inside the page already has focus (or focus is on body), focus the composer. Reuse the existing "focus message input" action behind Cmd/Ctrl+L.
• Do not steal focus from a search field, dialog, media viewer, or any element the user had focused before switching away.
• Make it a setting, on by default.

Testing

Switch away and back in each state: open thread, search open, media viewer open, an emoji picker open, login page. Only the first focuses the composer.

Part of [#349].

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: kristofferR

[!NOTE]
🤖 Claude Opus 5.5 responding on behalf of Kristoffer

Landed in [#379] (focus the message box when switching back to Carrier, with a setting, on by default) and [#403] (also when opening a conversation). Search fields, dialogs and other focused elements keep their focus. Tested live on Linux.

It is on main and ships in the next release.

[Anonymous]

Ticket changed by: kristofferR

• status: open --> closed