# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Desktop app stealing focus during streaming fixes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

A reported issue and several fixes addressing the desktop app incorrectly stealing foreground focus and window raises during active conversation streaming, which could dismiss system dialogs. Related composer and focus usability improvements are bundled together.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 2 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #128330. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #128330 (and any competing PRs below) before filing. Confirm the merged change covers your symptom.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-128330`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
- Pairwise link density `0.50`: the share of member pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. `1.00` means every pair is linked.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #83998: Desktop app steals foreground focus during active conversation streaming, dismissing Windows save/confirm dialog

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#86586: fix(desktop): focus & composer usability rollup (salvages #84026, #85736, #84992, #84032, #85734)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/electron/session-windows.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/session-windows.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/composer/trigger-popover.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/composer/trigger-popover.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/hooks/use-keybinds.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/hud/click-through.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/hud/click-through.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/hud/hud-shell.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/hud/layout.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/hud/layout.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/components/find-bar.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/keybinds/actions.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/keybinds/combo.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/keybinds/combo.ts`
- **#128330: fix(desktop): stop ambient window raises from stealing the Windows foreground during streaming**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/electron/main.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/window-focus-policy.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/window-focus-policy.ts`
- **#84026: fix(desktop): prevent navigation from stealing focus**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#86586`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #128330 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-30`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`