Windows sent to the back with Alt-Esc sometimes come to the front again

[darkling]

Windows Version

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22631.4317]

WSL Version

2.3.24.0

Are you using WSL 1 or WSL 2?

• WSL 2
• WSL 1

Kernel Version

5.15.153.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2

Distro Version

Debian

Other Software

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Repro Steps

Have two overlapping WSL windows.
Send the top one to the back.
Click on the (now) top one to give it focus, in an area which overlaps the underlying window.

Expected Behavior

The top window gets the focus, because that's the one I clicked on.

Actual Behavior

The window I sent to the back rises to the top again.

This does not always happen, but when it does, I can go through repeated cycles of seeing the same behaviour. I'm not sure if it stays doing this until WSL dies, or if it will ever recover.

Diagnostic Logs

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[darkling]

Took a while for it to reproduce at a point when I wasn't trying to get something done Right Now, so here's the logs.
WslLogs-2024-11-07_11-08-45.zip

This had at least one occurrence of the window at the back returning to the front when clicking on something in front of it, and many occurrences of Alt-Esc failing to send the selected window to the back.