Swallow focus not behave correctly in master layout

[tienbg-zigexn]

• Currently if you close a swallowed window, the focus will shift to the next window, not the swallower one.

Expected:

• After closes the swallowed window, hyprland should focus the swallower window.

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• Notice that after I quit mpv, the focus shifted to the terminal below it.

20250512_150435.mp4

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I am on the latest tag:

Hyprland 0.49.0 built from branch  at commit 9958d297641b5c84dcff93f9039d80a5ad37ab00  (version: bump to 0.49.0).
Date: Fri May 9 03:15:18 2025
Tag: v0.49.0, commits: 6098
built against:
 aquamarine 0.8.0
 hyprlang 0.6.3
 hyprutils 0.7.1
 hyprcursor 0.1.12
 hyprgraphics 0.1.3


no flags were set


System Information:
System name: Linux
Node name: myworkstation
Release: 6.11.0-25-generic
Version: #25-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Apr 11 23:29:18 UTC 2025


GPU information: 
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] [8086:9a49] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])


os-release: PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 24.10"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION_ID="24.10"
VERSION="24.10 (Oracular Oriole)"
VERSION_CODENAME=oracular
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
UBUNTU_CODENAME=oracular
LOGO=ubuntu-logo


plugins:

• Relevant config:

general {
    layout = master
    no_focus_fallback = true
}

input {
    follow_mouse = 2
}

misc {
    enable_swallow = true
    swallow_regex = ^footclient|foot$
}

cursor {
    no_warps = true
}

[tienbg-zigexn]

Another related problem is that after I closed the swallowed window, the swallower window reappear but behave as newly opened window (place at the top of stack or the last, based on master:new_on_top).

New swallowed window behaves the same, acting as newly opened window.

It should keep its position in the stack.

20250512_152015.mp4

[tienbg-zigexn]

This is related:

• The window loses its position in the stack after I toggled its float state.
• It should keeps its current position.

20250517_080641.mp4