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Hello dear devs. Been using Audacity for a long time, almost seven years. Love the software, appreciate your work.

Got too used to autofocus on tracks, and now it's gone, perhaps this feature was lost in Dark Audacity merging process..

Expected behaviour is:
1. I alt+tab / pop effect window.
2. Autofocus gets track selected.
3. I could use keyboard arrows / pop another effect window right after (I bound them on hotkeys 1,2,3,etc).

Current behaviour is:
1. I alt+tab / pop effect window.
2. Autofocus gets some pane selected.
3. By using hotkeys (1,2,3) to launch other effects I override project's sampling frequency, because the only pane I still got enabled is 'selection pane'.
4. Revert it back, click into tracks subwindow... and press the hotkey again.

This is frustrating. Could you fix it?

Version is 2.2.1 in debian testing.

Non wrote:1. I alt+tab / pop effect window.

Not sure what you mean. Do you mean "i + Alt + Tab", or that: You press "Alt+Tab" ?
Either way, that's not a standard Audacity shortcut. "Alt + Tab" is generally reserved by the OS window manager for switching between windows.

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OK, I see what you mean.
Which version did you have where this was not a problem?

I've compiled 2.1.3 on Debian Testing with *-dev packages. Couldn't get audio interface to work, but I got no pane autofocus issues on 2.1.3.
Then I compiled 2.2.0, and pane autofocus issue was there. So looks like it was introduced in 2.2.0.

I also tested previous builds on windows 7. 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.2.0, 2.2.1 did fine. Track was the only thing it had focused.