Focus disappears when removing several windows at a time about leftwm HOT 4 OPEN

I have a similar problem: if I have emacsclient and alacritty open in the same tag, with focus on the emacsclient, and I close the emacsclient, the focus is lost, even though there is only one remaining window in the tag.

I am using ClickTo and so the only way to regain focus is to click on the sole remaining window. FocusWindowUp and FocusWindowDown keybindings do nothing.

Interestingly, if I only use alacritty windows, and I close TWO of them then I similarly lose focus (like @FrBst says). If I only close one of them, then the focus is not lost.

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cf #1145 and #1108

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Exact same issue here!

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My workflow has been frustrated by this too. It seems to stem from the refocus behaviour; when you close a window, focus will move to the previously focused window. If you have closed the previously focused window, the logic gives up and doesn't focus on anything.

A similar thing happens when I change to a tag with multiple windows, then close the window I land on. Instead of changing focus to the remaining window, focus is lost altogether, presumably because the previously focused window is on a different tag.

Besides the fact that the current behaviour causes this bug, I find it generally inconvenient, for example if I'm working with multiple workspaces. Much more sensible in my mind would be for focus to simply move up the stack of the current workspace.

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