# Notification focus steal

**URL:** <http://forum.hypr.land/t/notification-focus-steal/2108>\
**Category:** Bugs / FRs / Support\
**Tags:** question, hyprland, config\
**Created:** [August 22, 2026, 7:01am UTC](http://forum.hypr.land/t/notification-focus-steal/2108 "2026-08-22T07:01:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![kjsadf](http://forum.hypr.land/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/59ef9b/32.png) [@kjsadf](http://forum.hypr.land/u/kjsadf)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2026, 7:01am UTC](http://forum.hypr.land/t/notification-focus-steal/2108/1 "2026-08-22T07:01:36Z")

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## Describe your issue / feature…

I’m using Noctalia as my shell, and to have notifications switch focus on click, I needed to set

```auto
hl.config({
    misc = {
        focus_on_activate = true,
    },
}

```

But this steals focus all the time, when a window requests it. Is there any way to only have the focus moved to the window, when I click the notification? I can’t find anything in the options. Do i need to lua something myself?

**update** : Maybe it could be a noctalia problem. Seems like with the new v5 rewrite there is a regression with notifications/hyprland.