Battlenet Desktop Application takes focus when someone talks to me and minimizes fullscreen applications

[Ultrafast-ravencrest]

So I am in another game playing whatever and someone decides to talk to me over Bnet. The game I am playing (not a bliz game) will then just minimize and I am shown my desktop and bnet icon glowing for my attention.

I’ve tried everything and I ma getting desperate because having this happen when I am in a competitive game triggers me to the max. I even reinstalled windows 10

[anon65661274]

Have you tried the following in the battle.net desktop app settings. Not sure if it will help but worth try…

Under “Notifications”, make sure you have ticked “Hide toasts when using and app in full-screen mode” OR just untick “Show battle.net notification toasts” to turn them off completely.

Under “Friends and chat” untick “Alert me (by Flashing) when i receive a chat message” and “Automtatically create pop-out windows for new chats”.

Those are the only settings that i can think of that might cause your issue.

Of course the last option is to exit the battle.net app completley when playing other games if you don’t need it open.

[Ultrafast-ravencrest]

I have tried everything under the sun by now. The only thing that works is disabling any type of notification but that also means that when someone talks to me, I won’t get notified. That’s what I have been using for a while now… it sucks but it does not suck as much as randomly minimizing windows when someone talks to me.

I have found out that it only happens when I have NO bnet chat window open. So I guess it has something to do with bnet opening a chat window which forces windows to minimize everything. Once I have a chat window open, the problem does not occur.

but I am not going to keep a chat window open all the time.

[anon65661274]

It sounds like Windows is giving the chat popups focus when they open, which shouldn’t happen if your running the game in full screen mode but it’s that focus switch in windows that causing the game to minimize.

Under Friends and Chat > Chat settings:

If you have the option “Automatically create pop-out windows for new chats” enabled, also enable the “Hide new chat windows when playing a battle.net game”.

Or disable the “Automatically create pop-out windows for new chats” so that the windows can’t take focus. You’ll still get notification toasts (if enabled) and the battle.net icon will still flash and notify you of new chats - chats will just be within the main app rather than a seperate window.