fix(desktop): hand keyboard focus back after an automation click

[Mnigos]

An agent preview_click dispatches Input.dispatchMouseEvent into the guest WebContents, and that press moves the application's keyboard focus into the previewed page. Nothing hands it back, so every keystroke the user types afterwards lands in the page until they click elsewhere by hand. With a tab opened through preview_open { open: false } the page is not even visible, so pastes silently go to a hidden document.

performAutomationPress already captures webContents.getFocusedWebContents() before dispatch and restores it in an Effect.ensuring block. The click path now does the same through a shared restoreFocusedWebContents helper, on success and on failure. The press path keeps its behavior and uses the helper. The restore yields in two cases: focus moved to a third renderer while the action ran (the user's newer selection wins), or T3 has neither a focused renderer nor a focused window because the user switched to another app, so nothing pulls them back. That second guard matches the one #9848 adds on the press path.

Out of scope, per the triage list on #10980: the race where performAutomationPress restores focus before the renderer processes the key, and whether hidden tabs should ever hold focus.

Verification

• New test in Manager.test.ts: a click restores the previously focused renderer exactly once, after the last CDP command; a click that fails the viewport check still restores it; focus that moved to a third renderer is left alone; and no restore happens when T3 lost app focus (getFocusedWebContents() and BrowserWindow.getFocusedWindow() both null). It fails without the restore and passes here.
• vp test run apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.test.ts: 90 tests pass. Desktop typecheck and lint on the touched files are clean.

Related to #10980. Implemented with Claude Code (Claude Fable 5.1).

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Restored keyboard focus to previously focused content after automated clicks and key presses.
  • Preserved focus restoration when offscreen click actions fail.
  • Avoided overriding a newer focus selection made while automation was in progress.
  • Safely skipped restoration when the user switched apps, the original content was unavailable, or the target was already focused.

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Verdict: Approved at b13427d

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a localized desktop bug fix that restores the prior renderer’s keyboard focus after automated clicks, including failed clicks, while preserving existing press behavior. The regression coverage verifies both ordering and failure cleanup, with no changes to defaults, schemas, infrastructure, or sensitive areas.

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Automation actions now restore the previous renderer only when focus remains eligible. Click and press cleanup skip restoration when another renderer gains focus, the user leaves the application, or the previous target cannot be restored. Tests cover application switching.

Changes

Automation focus preservation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Guarded focus restoration apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.ts	Automation click and press cleanup use a shared helper that checks current focus, destroyed targets, guest targets, and application focus before restoring the previous renderer.
Focus restoration test coverage apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.test.ts	Electron focus mocks support focused-window state. Tests verify that focus is not restored after the user switches to another application.

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Focus restoration preserves the user’s current focus when automation completes, including after switching applications. No actionable merge risk remains.

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In `@apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.ts`:
- Around line 3735-3737: Update restoreFocusedWebContents so the
previouslyFocused.focus() operation runs only when
webContents.getFocusedWebContents() is still wc, preserving any newer focus
selection. Add a regression test covering focus changing before finalization and
verify that the newer selection is not overridden.

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Note: GPT-6 on behalf of shivam (@shivamhwp).

restoreFocusedWebContents still calls the previous renderer's focus() when both getFocusedWebContents() and BrowserWindow.getFocusedWindow() are null, as happens after switching to another app during the click. Skip restoration when T3 no longer has a focused window, and cover that case alongside the third-renderer case. The related focus guard in #9848 already handles this condition; preserve it when combining the overlapping click and keypress changes.

[Mnigos]

@shivamhwp added in 2970e5b: no restore when T3 has neither a focused renderer nor a focused window, covered next to the third-renderer case; same guard shape as #9848.