For those that like to have multiple instances of Bambu Studio open for multiple printers: The program “auto focuses” on the instance of the software that is tied to the printer that is currently printing.
For example: If you start a print in one instance on one of your printers, then open another instance to start a print on another printer, while you are working in the slicer and the first printer starts to pre-heat the print bed, it automatically pulls up the device tab of the other instance of Bambu Studio. It does this every time a filament changes, the bed pre-heats, the auto-bed leveling, etc. It’s very annoying when you are multitasking in the slicer and you are constantly being pulled to the other instance of the software. Please disable that feature or at least make it an option somewhere in the settings.
I’m surprised this isn’t talked about more with how annoying it is… Even while typing out my comment here, Bambu Studio pulls away my focus, both mouse and keyboard, and moves itself on top of other windows on the same i3 workspace.
I first thought this was because i had the camera stream active, but even when i pause it, the behavior remains unchanged.
I hardly use Bambu Studio anymore, Orca is based on it, but for me at least, much more user friendly. Orca doesn’t pull away the focus, however, if you’ve got the device tab open while a printer is running, even if the camera feed isn’t up, it does prevent the screen saver/lock screen from kicking in. Not sure why that happens, but you might try Orca to avoid it pulling the focus.
How is this still not added?
Sometimes I just want to print something while I do some other task (work, gaming, etc). It is SO annoying how Bambu Studio takes fokus like 3 times when a print finishes while it is running in the background.
This is completely unnecessary. Please at least add a setting to disable it.