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Benjamin-Dobell / Fookoff

Prevent OS X apps stealing focus.
MIT License
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Really? This is so unpopular? #1

Open sandrodz opened 5 years ago

sandrodz commented 5 years ago

I'm amazed to find this app is so unpopular. Am I the only one super annoyed by FaceTime stealing focus with call forwarding?

martisj commented 5 years ago

@sandrodz Does it work nicely for you? I.e. do all the other window swapping features in OS X work as expected?

sandrodz commented 5 years ago

Actually I've not tested it, but mac mail is so annoying I would love to give it a try. But repo has not been updated in 5 years, I doubt it will even build.

Benjamin-Dobell commented 5 years ago

You know what, I was curious myself, as I haven't used this either in years. If you disable the i386 build target (which Apple have since deprecated) then it actually does still build. You can then proceed to install it with mySIMBL and it does still indeed "work".

However, as noted in the README, it disables the functionality for all apps. So absolutely messes with regular window swapping. It's really more of a proof of concept. Although at the time I wrote this, I did indeed use it to stop some super shitty software (Samsung Kies) from stealing focus quite literally every 3 seconds.

sandrodz commented 5 years ago

For me, atm, Mac Mail and FaceTime are the hateful two. Loosing window swapping would be a major drawback for my workflow though.

elliotcm commented 4 years ago

@Benjamin-Dobell Could you clarify what "regular window swapping" means in this case?

Benjamin-Dobell commented 4 years ago

@elliotcm Honestly, I can't actually remember. I don't use this myself anymore, and when I did run it, it was only briefly (a matter of days).

At this point, it's probably just best to think of this repository as a proof of concept.

Joshfindit commented 3 years ago

I feel like many people either give in (like with most Mac "niceties" such as the mandatory animations), or they convince themselves they will one day ascend in to Apple's ideal customer (calmly walk over to the computer, press a single button to power it on in a state of blissful zen, then simply allow magic to flow from your fingers for a while before delivering it to a client and receiving enough that buying the next new upgrade is easier than each blissful blink of your eyes)

Anyone who runs a dozen applications and hits a hiccup is then told "Oh... just buy the new one it's so much faster. You won't even notice when new windows come up."

Of course: that's a fantasy. They may never really know what it's like to fly through projects at 150WPM and all keyboard-shortcuts. They may never know the heights of flow and the lows of being T-boned by a window.

Some days I want to build a YouTube channel that turns UI speed in to a competition. No recompiling, no scripting, just hardware and accurate stopwatches.