> In essence, an application cannot take focus, it can only receive focus. In the example above, your chat app would request an XDG Activation token from the co

> In essence, an application cannot take focus, it can only receive focus. In the example above, your chat app would request an XDG Activation token from the compositor To be fair, the same is mostly true on Windows, but through some different APIs. Applications being able to put themselves in front unconditionally was for a long time a huge source of pain for the user, due to abusive/malicious software, and probably a reason Windows was malware platform #1. This is honestly a reasonable design.