I'm working on this. I have a working prototype and will send a PR later when I finish cleaning the code.

@igordsm You can always open a draft PR while your working on it for better visibilty 😄

I think this used to work, not long ago (maybe OS6?), but nowadays clicking the notification will instead do one of these two actions:

• focus leftmost tab with Home directory open, or
• create and focus a new tab with Home directory, if it didn't exist.

This is even if my command was actually running in different tab in different directory. Clicking the notification always goes Home.

Worth looking at this again now some systemic issues with the notification handling are fixed.

focus leftmost tab with Home directory open

I realized my wording had some untested assumption, so I tested it and it still holds - the above statement is even true if I open two tabs with Home directory and run e.g. sleep 10 in the second one. Clicking the notification will focus the leftmost Home tab no matter if the other Home tab running the command was focused or not.

#638 now works on X11 but I think fixing for Wayland under Gtk3 might need the addition of another dependency (gdk-wayland-3.0). This should not be necessary after porting to Gtk4 however.

It got better recently, I think there is still something off with it, but now after vacation I don't recall what it was and I'm busy with other work. I'll see next week, as I'll be making hundreds of plots in Jupyter, so it should come up...

PS: I've run flatpak update just to do a quick test. I switched to different terminal tab, and then to different app. Clicking the notification brings terminal in focus, but not the correct tab, just the tab I selected before leaving it. It no longer creates new Home tab, so that's fixed. Version is reported as 6.2.0.

@janxkoci You'll need to compile the linked PR (#638) from source to get the (partial) fix as it has not yet been approved and merged into the master branch.

@jeremypw I'm aware of that, but your comment reminded me of previous improvements I wanted to mention here. These happened some weeks ago and made the issue less bad.