newmarcel/KeepingYouAwake

Using custom URI scheme without losing focus.

eggpi opened this issue · 2 comments

eggpi commented

Hi, thanks a lot for this tool, it's very handy!

I was trying out the custom URI schemes from #16 for some simple scripting and I noticed that they steal focus from the current application. So, on my OS X Catalina (10.15.5), if I open a Terminal window and do:

$ open keepingyouawake:///activate

KeepingYouAwake activates as expected, and the Terminal window loses focus.

Would it be possible to activate it in the background without stealing focus like that?

Kriechi commented

bumping this as I just tracked down this super annoying behaviour. I called the URI periodically during the day and it always interrupted my work flow as the active window lost its focus.

newmarcel commented

Hi! The open application has an additional parameter -g that does not bring the app into the foreground

 -g  Do not bring the application to the foreground.

You can find out more by reading the manual page with the man open command. Hopefully this resolves the problem for you.