Raise the focused window above windows restored during a workspace transition - #203
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR adds a configurable policy for moving past the last workspace. It persists the setting, exposes it in the behavior UI, and applies create-or-wrap navigation. It also raises a focused window after workspace restoration and adds release changesets. ChangesWorkspace navigation policy
Focused window ordering
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR can incorrectly wrap instead of creating the next workspace and can drop unknown workspace configuration keys during save, causing navigation errors or user configuration loss. These bounded correctness issues should be addressed before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant User
participant BehaviorSettingsTab
participant SettingsStore
participant WorkspaceNavigationHandler
User->>BehaviorSettingsTab: Select create or wrap policy
BehaviorSettingsTab->>SettingsStore: Update movePastLastWorkspace
User->>WorkspaceNavigationHandler: Move focused window past workspace boundary
WorkspaceNavigationHandler->>SettingsStore: Read navigation policy
SettingsStore-->>WorkspaceNavigationHandler: Return create or wrap policy
WorkspaceNavigationHandler-->>User: Create successor or wrap to boundary workspace
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Context after the investigation that produced this PR concluded. This does not fix the moved-window visibility bug it was written for. That bug is fixed by #209: the AX focus-confirmation path was skipping the reveal on a token-only re-confirmation test, so the destination viewport was preserved and the moved window stayed outside it. The gap this closes is real but was never observed to execute. Instrumentation showed that on the reported path the moved window is in Marking ready so the reasoning is reviewable. Fine to close if the maintainers would rather not carry a change whose effect has never been observed. |
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| guard wm.workspaceId(named: candidateName) == nil else { return nil } | ||
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| guard let targetId = wm.workspaceId(for: candidateName, createIfMissing: false) else { return nil } |
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When the default create policy handles a move past the last numbered workspace, this branch first confirms that candidateName is absent and then looks it up with createIfMissing: false. The lookup therefore returns nil, causing the resolver to fall through to wrapping and move the window to the first workspace instead of creating the requested successor.
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Path: Sources/Nehir/Core/Controller/WorkspaceNavigationHandler.swift
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**Create policy always wraps**
When the default `create` policy handles a move past the last numbered workspace, this branch first confirms that `candidateName` is absent and then looks it up with `createIfMissing: false`. The lookup therefore returns `nil`, causing the resolver to fall through to wrapping and move the window to the first workspace instead of creating the requested successor.
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This finding is valid but no longer applies to this PR.
It concerns createNextNumberedWorkspace, which belongs to #202. When this review ran, #203 still carried #202's commit because it was stacked on that branch while targeting main. I have since rebased #203 onto main alone, so it now contains only its own commit (Raise the focused window above windows restored during a workspace transition) touching LayoutRefreshController.swift and a changeset.
The finding itself is correct and I have replied to it substantively on #202: #202 (comment) — the guard-then-lookup pair makes creation unreachable, and it is pre-existing on main rather than introduced by that PR.
Nothing to change here.
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In `@Sources/Nehir/Core/Config/CanonicalTOMLConfig.swift`:
- Around line 319-322: Update toSettingsExport() so it merges
Workspace.unknownFields into the exported unknown["workspace"] table, preserving
unrecognized [workspace] keys across load, mutation, and save while retaining
recognized workspace settings.
In `@Sources/Nehir/Core/Controller/WorkspaceNavigationHandler.swift`:
- Around line 617-620: Update the successor workspace resolution near
candidateName so the absent candidate is created by using creation-enabled
workspaceId(for:createIfMissing:) resolution. Guard the current-number increment
before evaluating currentNumber + 1, returning nil when it would overflow
Int.max, while preserving the existing absent-workspace check and fallback
behavior.
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| workspace = Workspace( | ||
| movePastLastWorkspace: export.movePastLastWorkspace, | ||
| unknownFields: unknown["workspace"] ?? [:] | ||
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Preserve unknown [workspace] keys in toSettingsExport().
The Workspace decoder retains unknown keys, but toSettingsExport() does not add workspace.unknownFields to unknown. A load, mutation, and save removes future keys under [workspace].
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add("gaps.outer", gaps.outer.unknownFields)
add("niri", niri.unknownFields)
+ add("workspace", workspace.unknownFields)
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| workspace = Workspace( | |
| movePastLastWorkspace: export.movePastLastWorkspace, | |
| unknownFields: unknown["workspace"] ?? [:] | |
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| add("gaps.outer", gaps.outer.unknownFields) | |
| add("niri", niri.unknownFields) | |
| add("workspace", workspace.unknownFields) | |
| add("borders", borders.unknownFields) |
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In `@Sources/Nehir/Core/Config/CanonicalTOMLConfig.swift` around lines 319 - 322,
Update toSettingsExport() so it merges Workspace.unknownFields into the exported
unknown["workspace"] table, preserving unrecognized [workspace] keys across
load, mutation, and save while retaining recognized workspace settings.
| let candidateName = String(currentNumber + 1) | ||
| guard wm.workspaceId(named: candidateName) == nil else { return nil } | ||
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| guard let targetId = wm.workspaceId(for: candidateName, createIfMissing: false) else { return nil } |
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Create the successor workspace when the candidate is absent.
The preceding guard requires candidateName to be absent. workspaceId(for:createIfMissing: false) then cannot create that successor, so the .create policy falls back to wrapping. Use creation-enabled resolution. Also guard the increment because currentNumber + 1 traps for Int.max.
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- let candidateName = String(currentNumber + 1)
+ let (nextNumber, overflow) = currentNumber.addingReportingOverflow(1)
+ guard !overflow else { return nil }
+ let candidateName = String(nextNumber)
guard wm.workspaceId(named: candidateName) == nil else { return nil }
- guard let targetId = wm.workspaceId(for: candidateName, createIfMissing: false) else { return nil }
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| let candidateName = String(currentNumber + 1) | |
| guard wm.workspaceId(named: candidateName) == nil else { return nil } | |
| guard let targetId = wm.workspaceId(for: candidateName, createIfMissing: false) else { return nil } | |
| let (nextNumber, overflow) = currentNumber.addingReportingOverflow(1) | |
| guard !overflow else { return nil } | |
| let candidateName = String(nextNumber) | |
| guard wm.workspaceId(named: candidateName) == nil else { return nil } | |
| guard let targetId = wm.workspaceId(for: candidateName, createIfMissing: true) else { return nil } |
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In `@Sources/Nehir/Core/Controller/WorkspaceNavigationHandler.swift` around lines
617 - 620, Update the successor workspace resolution near candidateName so the
absent candidate is created by using creation-enabled
workspaceId(for:createIfMissing:) resolution. Guard the current-number increment
before evaluating currentNumber + 1, returning nil when it would overflow
Int.max, while preserving the existing absent-workspace check and fallback
behavior.
…ansition A window moved into another workspace held keyboard focus but was drawn underneath the windows already on that workspace. The layout pass raises windows only when their visibility changed: `visibleJobs` is built from `restoreChanges` and `.show` visibility changes, both of which require prior hidden state. A window transferred in from a visible workspace was never hidden, so it produces neither and is absent from that pass. The windows already resident on the destination workspace were parked while it was inactive, so they do restore and get force-ordered above via SkyLight, burying the transferred window. The only thing raising the moved window was the post-layout focus handoff's AXRaise, which is app-cooperative and runs after those forced private-API orderings. The `diff.focusedFrame` raise that would have covered this is gated on `column.isEffectivelyTabbed`, so it does not apply to an untabbed single-window column. Raise the focused window through the same SkyLight ordering the restore pass uses, after that pass, so it ends up above the windows just raised. This runs unconditionally for the focused window rather than only for tokens missing from `visibleJobs`: a focused window that did restore is ordered mid-loop and can still be buried by a sibling raised after it. The raise is idempotent, so "the focused window ends up on top" holds either way.
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Problem
A window moved to another workspace holds keyboard focus on its destination but is drawn underneath the windows already there. Reproduced with a single TextEdit window moved from workspace 1 to workspace 2: the workspace switch happens, focus lands on the moved window, but the window visible on screen is a different one.
Root cause
The layout pass raises windows only when their visibility changed.
visibleJobs(LayoutRefreshController.swift) is built fromrestoreEntriesandshownEntries, which come fromdiff.restoreChangesand.showvisibility changes. Both are gated on prior hidden state in the diff builder (NiriLayoutHandler.swift):.showrequirespreviousOffscreenSide != nil, andrestoreChangesrequireshiddenState.workspaceInactive.A window transferred in from a visible workspace was never hidden, so its
hiddenStateisnil, both branches are skipped, and it falls through as a plainframeChange. It is framed correctly and made writable, but never raised.The windows already resident on the destination workspace were parked while that workspace was inactive, so they do produce
restoreChanges, land inrestoreEntries, and get force-ordered above viaSkyLight.orderWindow. Whichever is raised last ends up on top of the transferred window.The only thing raising the moved window was the post-layout focus handoff's
raiseWindow→AXUIElementPerformAction(kAXRaiseAction), which is app-cooperative and runs after those forced private-API orderings. Thediff.focusedFrameraise that would otherwise have covered this is gated oncolumn.isEffectivelyTabbed, so it does not apply to an untabbed single-window column.Change
Raise the focused window through the same SkyLight ordering the restore pass uses, immediately after that pass, so it ends up above the windows just raised.
diff.focusedFramealready identifies the right window: its token comes fromvisualFocusToken, which starts from the engine'sselectedNodeId— set to the moved window during transfer.Guards mirror the existing ordering loop (
blockedRevealTokens,hiddenTokens,isPlanWorkspaceActive), so this cannot raise a window on an inactive workspace or one deliberately withheld from reveal.The raise runs unconditionally for the focused window rather than only for tokens missing from
visibleJobs: a focused window that did restore is ordered somewhere in the middle of that loop and can still be buried by a sibling raised after it. The call is idempotent, so "the focused window ends up on top" holds either way.Notes
sizingMode/effectiveViewportWidthissue. This PR is only about z-ordering on transfer.Status
swift buildpasses. The fix is implemented but unconfirmed: the diagnosis of which ordering mechanism wins is a hypothesis about runtime behavior, and only the real reproduction can settle it. Tests are deferred perdocs/TESTING.mduntil the behavior is confirmed.Stacked on #202 (that commit is this branch's parent).
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The PR raises the focused window after workspace restoration ordering so that a transferred window remains above restored destination windows.
Confidence Score: 4/5
The PR is not yet safe to merge because the previously reported create policy still fails to create and move to an absent adjacent workspace.
The focused-window ordering change introduces no eligible blocking finding, but the existing adjacent-workspace resolver still checks that the target is absent and then disables creation, so moving a window or column past the final workspace returns without completing the requested move.
Files Needing Attention: Sources/Nehir/Core/Controller/WorkspaceNavigationHandler.swift; Sources/Nehir/Core/Controller/WorkspaceManager.swift
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