When switching to the IntelliJ IDEA window, it cannot gain focus automatically. I have to move the mouse before I can type normally.

[s0raLin]

System Information

• niri version: 25.08 (01be0e6)

• Distro:

• GPU:

• CPU:

[Sempyos]

This is an Xwayland-satellite issue I'm decently sure

Can you use xorg-xeyes and see if they follow over the window

How are you focusing it..?

[feng-yifan]

This is an Xwayland-satellite issue I'm decently sure

Can you use xorg-xeyes and see if they follow over the window

How are you focusing it..?

I also think it caused by xwayland.

Both using keyboard shorcut or move mouse above the IDEA windows will cause this problem, and it's not only you cannot type, there is also some strange behaviors, such as you can only use shorcut Alt+num to open window but close, Shift+F6 will open a focused rename window but cannot type to it, autocomplete tip window should under the edit point but sometimes it displayed out of the monitor, etc.

I think it is because niri cannot cannot send keyboard actions to the right window, in some special situations, disable focus-follows-mouse and enable warp-mouse-to-focus can do some help to this, but it still happens.

Also if you using fcitx and typing at the bottom line in editor, the fcitx word pick box will renderd out of monitor.

[feng-yifan]

Use -Dawt.toolkit.name=WLToolkit to enable native wayland support.

[Sempyos]

@feng-yifan out of curiosity, does that command work for all Jetbrains IDE's..? And I'm assuming its a command line flag..?

[feng-yifan]

@feng-yifan out of curiosity, does that command work for all Jetbrains IDE's..? And I'm assuming its a command line flag..?

It works for all IDEs, go help → edit custom vm options → add it than work.

I guess it's an option for JetBrains Runtime.

[falser101]

@feng-yifan out of curiosity, does that command work for all Jetbrains IDE's..? And I'm assuming its a command line flag..?

It works for all IDEs, go help → edit custom vm options → add it than work.

I guess it's an option for JetBrains Runtime.

but when add this command, i can't use fcitx5 to input chinese!

[feng-yifan]

@feng-yifan out of curiosity, does that command work for all Jetbrains IDE's..? And I'm assuming its a command line flag..?

It works for all IDEs, go help → edit custom vm options → add it than work.
I guess it's an option for JetBrains Runtime.

but when add this command, i can't use fcitx5 to input chinese!

得升级到 2025.3 EAP 版本，好像之前的版本都不支持 text-input-v3 协议，只支持 text-input-v1，你的合成器可能没实现 v1 协议

[millancore]

@feng-yifan Thanks for this!!, works really well for me in phpstorm jetbrain IDE

help -> edit custom vm options -> add
-Dawt.toolkit.name=WLToolkit

It was the only issue that had forced me to return to Sway, but now I am once again satisfied with Niri. Excellent work.

[Sempyos]

I'll make a PR to add that probably to the FAQ soon with a few others