holy shit it worked

I'm POSITIVE there's a lot of places where this won't.
But if we just exclude TOOLWINDOW's from the EnumWindows call, we can
toss FG back pretty consistently?

src/modules/cmdpal/Microsoft.CmdPal.UI/MainWindow.xaml.cs

@@ -298,6 +298,34 @@ public sealed partial class MainWindow : WindowEx,
 
     private void HideWindow()
     {
+        // now, use EnumWindows to find the first HWND that's not us, and set it as the foreground window
+        PInvoke.EnumWindows(
+            (hwnd, lParam) =>
+            {
+                if (hwnd != _hwnd && PInvoke.IsWindowVisible(hwnd))
+                {
+                    // // and make sure the HWND's client area is not empty
+                    // if (PInvoke.GetClientRect(hwnd, out var rect) && rect.Width <= 1 && rect.Height <= 1)
+                    // {
+                    //     return true; // continue enumerating
+                    // }
+
+                    // and make sure it's not a tool window
+                    var exStyle = (WINDOW_EX_STYLE)PInvoke.GetWindowLong(hwnd, WINDOW_LONG_PTR_INDEX.GWL_EXSTYLE);
+
+                    if (exStyle.HasFlag(WINDOW_EX_STYLE.WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW))
+                    {
+                        return true; // continue enumerating
+                    }
+
+                    PInvoke.SetForegroundWindow(hwnd);
+                    return false; // stop enumerating
+                }
+
+                return true; // continue enumerating
+            },
+            IntPtr.Zero);
+
         // Hide our window
 
         // Instead of hiding the window, cloak it from DWM

src/modules/cmdpal/Microsoft.CmdPal.UI/NativeMethods.txt

@@ -48,3 +48,9 @@ MessageBox
 DwmGetWindowAttribute
 DwmSetWindowAttribute
 DWM_CLOAKED_APP
+
+EnumWindows
+IsWindowVisible
+GetClientRect
+GetWindowLong
+WINDOW_EX_STYLE

src/modules/cmdpal/ext/Microsoft.CmdPal.Ext.ClipboardHistory/Commands/PasteCommand.cs

@@ -4,11 +4,10 @@
 
 using CommunityToolkit.Mvvm.Messaging;
 using Microsoft.CmdPal.Common.Messages;
+using Microsoft.CmdPal.Ext.ClipboardHistory.Helpers;
 using Microsoft.CmdPal.Ext.ClipboardHistory.Models;
 using Microsoft.CommandPalette.Extensions.Toolkit;
 
-using Windows.ApplicationModel.DataTransfer;
-
 namespace Microsoft.CmdPal.Ext.ClipboardHistory.Commands;
 
 internal sealed partial class PasteCommand : InvokableCommand
@@ -37,8 +36,22 @@ internal sealed partial class PasteCommand : InvokableCommand
     {
         ClipboardHelper.SetClipboardContent(_clipboardItem, _clipboardFormat);
         HideWindow();
+
+        // Get the title of the current foreground window
+        var foregroundWindow = NativeMethods.GetForegroundWindow();
+        if (foregroundWindow == 0)
+        {
+            return CommandResult.ShowToast("No active window to paste into.");
+        }
+
+        // now get it's title
+        var title = NativeMethods.GetWindowTitle(foregroundWindow);
+
+        ExtensionHost.LogMessage($"Pasting into window: '{title}'");
+
         ClipboardHelper.SendPasteKeyCombination();
-        Clipboard.DeleteItemFromHistory(_clipboardItem.Item);
+
+        // Clipboard.DeleteItemFromHistory(_clipboardItem.Item);
         return CommandResult.ShowToast("Pasting");
     }
 }

src/modules/cmdpal/ext/Microsoft.CmdPal.Ext.ClipboardHistory/Helpers/ClipboardHelper.cs

@@ -63,7 +63,8 @@ internal static class ClipboardHelper
                 ClipboardThreadQueue.EnqueueTask(() =>
                 {
                     Clipboard.SetContent(output);
-                    Flush();
+
+                    // Flush();
                     ExtensionHost.LogMessage(new LogMessage() { Message = "Copied text to clipboard" });
                 });
             }

src/modules/cmdpal/ext/Microsoft.CmdPal.Ext.ClipboardHistory/Helpers/NativeMethods.cs

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 using System;
 using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
+using System.Text;
 using Windows.Foundation;
 
 namespace Microsoft.CmdPal.Ext.ClipboardHistory.Helpers;
@@ -104,4 +105,21 @@ public static partial class NativeMethods
 
     [LibraryImport("ole32.dll")]
     internal static partial void CoUninitialize();
+
+    [DllImport("user32.dll")]
+    internal static extern IntPtr GetForegroundWindow();
+
+    [DllImport("user32.dll", SetLastError = true, CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
+    internal static extern int GetWindowTextLength(IntPtr hWnd);
+
+    [DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Unicode)]
+    internal static extern int GetWindowText(IntPtr hWnd, StringBuilder lpString, int nMaxCount);
+
+    internal static string GetWindowTitle(IntPtr hWnd)
+    {
+        var length = GetWindowTextLength(hWnd);
+        var sb = new StringBuilder(length + 1);
+        _ = GetWindowText(hWnd, sb, sb.Capacity);
+        return sb.ToString();
+    }
 }