Upstream comment: "There is no way to 'unfocus' a widget. The window manager handle this for us. In button mode it gets unfocused because the focused window disappears so the WM puts the focus into the 'next' application having a focus capability. When in text mode this is deskbar's textfield..
Sorry.." ** Changed in: deskbar-applet (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Rejected -- deskbar should lose focus when hotkey is pressed twice https://launchpad.net/bugs/41711 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs