Desktop app noob question: best cross-platform library that can listen for window-change events (focus, lose focus, etc)?

Almost any GUI framework can easily let you know when your own application gains or loses focus (or the other operations you mention). However, listening for these events for other arbitrary applications is definitely platform-specific and may or may not even be possible.

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