Using custom keyboard shortcuts to open applications seems to result in some applications not receiving focus.

Opening Firefox or Nautilus/Files using a custom keyboard shortcut (such as Alt-B) on an empty workspace starts the application, but the new window does not receive focus until you click. This is different from the behaviour in Fedora 18 (with gnome-shell 3.6.x), where the new window would immediately receive focus.

Using the mouse to open Firefox or Nautilus gives it focus straight away, so the problem seems to be only when using keyboard shortcuts.

Strangely, opening gnome-terminal using a custom keyboard shortcut doesn't result in the same symptoms. It receives focus immediately. So apparently not all applications are affected.


Fedora 19 x86_64
gnome-shell-3.8.2-3.fc19
gnome-settings-daemon-3.8.2-1.fc19


"halfline" on fedora-devel IRC mentioned the following:

looks like a settings-daemon bug

static void
do_custom_action (GsdMediaKeysManager *manager,
                  guint                deviceid,
                  MediaKey            *key,
                  gint64               timestamp)

{
        g_debug ("Launching custom action for key (on device id %d)", deviceid);
        execute (manager, key->custom_command, FALSE);
}

timestamp is getting thrown away

and it's getting hardcoded to GDK_CURRENT_TIME anyway:
do_custom_action (manager, deviceid, key, GDK_CURRENT_TIME);