Unexpected behavior after move-node-to-monitor

[sbarrios93]

Seems like when running move-node-to-monitor, focus stays on the next available windiw of the original workspace. If there are no more windows, Aerospace loses focus of any window.

I'd expect the focus to stay on the moved window (maybe this is related to #186).

How to reproduce:

1. If more than one window on the focused workspace

➜ aerospace list-windows --workspace focused
10885 | WezTerm  | aerospace
10994 | TextEdit | Untitled
~
# with WezTerm as focused window
➜ aerospace move-node-to-monitor next --wrap-around; \
  aerospace list-windows --focused
10994 | TextEdit | Untitled

2. If only one window on the focused workspace

~
➜ aerospace list-windows --workspace focused
10885 | WezTerm | aerospace
~
➜ aerospace move-node-to-monitor next --wrap-around; \
  aerospace list-windows --focused
No window is focused

If this is not really what's expected, I'd expect at least to be able to use the focus command on a specific window id, so that I could do

1. Get focused windowID
2. move-node-to-monitor
3. focus $windowID

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Hacky workaround currently, maybe someone finds this useful. I usually only use (at most) 2 monitors, so I'm doing this:

aerospace move-node-to-monitor next --wrap-around && aerospace focus-monitor next --wrap-around && aerospace list-windows --focused 

[nikitabobko]

Seems like when running move-node-to-monitor, focus stays on the next available windiw of the original workspace. If there are no more windows, Aerospace loses focus of any window

It's exactly how it works and it's by design. move-node-to-monitor performs one and only one operation - move the window to the target monitor, the command shouldn't change the focused workspace.

You can make focus follow the window by using focus-monitor as you described (not sure why you call it "hacky"). focus-monitor will focus the most recently "used" window on the target monitor, that's why it works.

#186 suggests that there should be a --focus-follows-window flag to enable focus-following

[sbarrios93]

Thanks @nikitabobko, appreciate the time you've put into this great tool!

I mentioned "hacky" because it wasn't apparent (at least to me) that changing focus to another monitor would focus on the newly-moved window.

I agree that --focus-follows-window is a good implementation, didn't see it mentioned specifically for move-node-to-monitor, so I wasn't sure if you were planning it on supporting that.