Stop playback in plugins

Hello. I’m curious about something: When I play the song using the space bar, but then change something in the plugin and want to stop the song, it doesn’t work. I have to click outside the plugin with the mouse once, then I can stop the song again with the space bar. But this is not the case with all plugins. With the LSP plugins or x-42 plugins, stopping works normally. I don’t have to click outside the plugin with the mouse first. What is the difference between these plugins? They are all native plugins. I have attached a video link.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lsJdU5QCDrO-dUFLeK3CMcB_6qIOpxE7

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I bet it’s a JUCE based plugin, if so it’s a bug in JUCE ([Bug]: Components steal X11 focus when clicked · Issue #1171 · juce-framework/JUCE · GitHub), very frustrating indeed.

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Thank you for your reply. This bug affects the workflow. Yeah, really frustrating.

Edit: But this bug is only on Linux?

Yes the bug that is linked to would be on X11 based systems so for all intents and purposes Linux.

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Thank you. Then, of course, it won’t help if I install a different Linux-Distribution.

Edit: On wayland too?

Ardour always uses X, so on Wayland it is running under XWayland. Likely the same issue will apply there since XWayland attempts to duplicate usual X behavior.

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I understand. Then i guess there’s nothing we can do about it.

You can complain to JUCE devs (please do :))

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I’m sure, that will help :smile: