fix: atomic floating pane issues with the about screen (#4834)

* fix: atomic floating pane issues with the about screen

* rustfmt

* add pr

Author: imsnif

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/)
 * feat: `zellij action paste` for pasting large buffers into panes from the command line (https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij/pull/4817)
 * feat: allow dumping viewport of specific pane to STDOUT or to a file (https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij/pull/4598 and https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij/pull/4823)
 * fix: allow specifying --ip and --port with `zellij web --status` rather than relying on those in the config (https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij/pull/4825)
+* fix: make sure clients are focused when atomically showing floating panes (https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij/pull/4834)
 
 
 ## [0.43.1] - 2025-08-08

default-plugins/about/src/main.rs

@@ -311,6 +311,7 @@ impl App {
                     )
                     .unwrap(),
                 )]);
+                let _ = show_floating_panes(None);
             }
         }
     }

zellij-server/src/tab/mod.rs

@@ -4914,19 +4914,22 @@ impl Tab {
             if let Some(c) = completion.as_mut() {
                 c.set_exit_status(2);
             }
-        } else if self
-            .floating_panes
-            .last_selectable_floating_pane_id()
-            .is_none()
-        {
-            // No selectable floating panes exist — surface must not be shown
-            if let Some(c) = completion.as_mut() {
-                c.set_exit_status(1);
-            }
         } else {
-            self.show_floating_panes();
-            if let Some(c) = completion.as_mut() {
-                c.set_exit_status(0);
+            match self.floating_panes.last_selectable_floating_pane_id() {
+                Some(last_selectable_floating_pane_id) => {
+                    self.show_floating_panes();
+                    self.floating_panes
+                        .focus_pane_for_all_clients(last_selectable_floating_pane_id);
+                    if let Some(c) = completion.as_mut() {
+                        c.set_exit_status(0);
+                    }
+                },
+                None => {
+                    // No selectable floating panes exist — surface must not be shown
+                    if let Some(c) = completion.as_mut() {
+                        c.set_exit_status(1);
+                    }
+                },
             }
         }
         drop(completion);