Editor pane loses focus (e.g., quick documentation)

Please see https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-191839. 2018.1.5 RC version with the fix will be available this week at https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/IDEADEV/IDEA+2018.1+EAP. Or you can try 2018.2 EAP version from https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/nextversion which does not have the issue.

All right, thanks Andrey! Good to know it's a bug, I can get away with some patience then :).

I am running 2018.2.5 and still experience this behavior.

@Spelta then you issue is different. Please elaborate more on the steps and your environment (OS, IDE version) and what exactly happens. Thanks.

Running Linux (Ubuntu 18.04), with the i3wm desktop environment. IDE version is 2018.2.5 (Ultimate Edition), Build #IU-182.4892.20; with ideavim plugin (the behavior doesn't change if I disable it though).

Whenever I am editing and I leave the IDE to switch to another window; then get back to it, the editor pane loses its focus and I have to click in it (or use the ctrl-f; ESC workaround) to be able to type again.

Thanks

Sounds like https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-194124. How do you bring the focus back to IDE?

Try if it helps to add suppress.focus.stealing=false via Help | Edit Custom Properties action and restart IDE.

to bring focus back to the IDE I had to enter CTRL-f and then ESC to leave the "find" window. Then the focus returned.
Or, I had to click in the editor with the mouse. Either option, as you can guess, were very uncomfortable :-D

Adding that custom property solved the issue though!

I hope no side effects will show up though.

Thanks,

@Andrey thank you so much! I had the same problem and this fixes it. It has been bugging me for months and now its fixed thanks to you.

I can confirm that the fix posted by @andrey works for Intellij Ultimate.

How can I enable this in WebStorm, as I have a all product license? 

Edit: No, its not working with Gradle. Gradle-pane steals the focus after every typing pause, makes intellij unuseable.

Edit: this worked for me: https://www.reddit.com/r/i3wm/comments/6zqg8q/popups_in_intellij_and_i3_finally_found_a_solution/

Yes!
I also confirm that adding: suppress.focus.stealing=false 

in the Help | Edit Custom Properties 

fixes the missing cursor issue when re-focusing under the i3 tiling windows manager.

Thanx Andrey Dernov

Adding

focus_follows_mouse no

to my i3 config (as found in Alexander Weihers URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/i3wm/comments/6zqg8q/popups_in_intellij_and_i3_finally_found_a_solution/) fixed the problem for me. Thank you a lot!



Adding this to custom properties solves the problem:

suppress.focus.stealing=false 

I'm having this issue on CLion 2019.3, but constantly as in:

- Start typing function name;

- Autocomplete window pops up;

- Press Enter to choose function;

- Text cursor is gone and I can't type no more. I can use backspace to delete and arrows to move line focus up/down.

suppress.focus.stealing=false hasn't fixed the issue.

I'm using Sway window manager.

EDIT: changing jre 1.8.0_202-release-1483-b53 fixes the issue.

Hello Abilio Costa,

This is a known issue on Sway: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JBR-1822

Please, vote and follow for updates. If you are not familiar with YouTrack, see https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/207241135-How-to-follow-YouTrack-issues-and-receive-notifications

@... Thanks for pointing that out!

I'm still experiencing  this problem but exclusively in Android Studio (I use intellij, pycharm and goland, there it is not a problem)

I tried

suppress.focus.stealing=false

and also set focus_follows_mouse no

in my i3 config.

It is really annoying. I now try to develop in intellij and only do the android specifc tasks in android studio. Not optimal.

This occurs in Android Studio 4.1

Android Studio 4.1
Build #AI-201.8743.12.41.6858069, built on September 23, 2020
Runtime version: 1.8.0_242-release-1644-b3-6222593 amd64
VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o
Linux 4.4.0-157-generic
GC: ParNew, ConcurrentMarkSweep
Memory: 1981M
Cores: 8
Registry: ide.new.welcome.screen.force=true
Non-Bundled Plugins: IdeaVIM, com.cursiveclojure.cursive
Current Desktop: i3

The fact that "suppress.focus.stealing=false" does not help tells that the issue is different. Please elaborate more on the steps performed. 

As a general troubleshooting step, please change runtime to JBR 11 ( JBR 1.8 is used now). Here are the instructions: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/206544879-Selecting-the-JDK-version-the-IDE-will-run-under