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The editor/console (sometimes) loses focus when commands that open an interactive viewer are executed #1658
Description
Describe the bug
The editor/console (sometimes) loses focus when commands that open an interactive viewer are executed. We must then click again in the editor/console to get focus back.
To Reproduce
I am not able to always reproduce, but the editor/console often loses focus when executing e.g.:
plot(mpg ~ hp, mtcars)
View(mtcars)
?plotCan you fix this issue by yourself? (We appreciate the help)
No
Expected behavior
The editor/console should not lose focus when an interactive viewer is opened.
Environment (please complete the following information):
- OS: all
- VSCode Version: VSCodium 1.106.37943
- R Version: all
- vscode-R version: 2.8.6
Additional context
FWIW, RStudio editor does not lose focus when showing plots (e.g. plot(mpg ~ hp, mtcars)) or help (e.g. ?plot). With default layout, the editor lose focus when showing objects (e.g. View(mtcars)) because the viewer is open "on top" of the editor.
Activity
ThomasSoeiro commentedon Dec 11, 2025
I confirm the issue also exists with lastest upstream VSCode:
Version: 1.107.0
Commit: 618725e67565b290ba4da6fe2d29f8fa1d4e3622
Date: 2025-12-10T07:43:47.883Z
Electron: 39.2.3
ElectronBuildId: 12895514
Chromium: 142.0.7444.175
Node.js: 22.21.1
V8: 14.2.231.21-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22631
Preserve editor focus when plots are rendered
ThomasSoeiro commentedon Sep 22, 2026
@grantmcdermott REditorSupport/jgd@3c557c6 seems to have fixed jgd but the issue still (randomly?) occurs with the default plot viewer.
Another focus issue is that the plot viewer does not regain focus when the data viewer has taken focus:
[-]The editor (sometimes) loses focus when commands that open an interactive viewer are executed[/-][+]The editor/console (sometimes) loses focus when commands that open an interactive viewer are executed[/+]ThomasSoeiro commentedon Sep 23, 2026
@eitsupi @Fred-Wu @grantmcdermott can you please add the "confirmed" tag?