electron: [Bug]: In Mac OS Sonoma (14.0) showInactive, is not inactive anymore

Take a look at https://github.com/abhaybuch/node-mac-window for a hacked together native module that lets you bring a window into focus without activating it’s application

We are experiencing the same issues.

Also running into this when trying to show a panel window without taking activating the application. Investigating if there’s an quick fix via native Node module. But my suspicion is that the issue is that Sonoma changed some implementation detail that caused the following lines in focus:

[[NSApplication sharedApplication] activateIgnoringOtherApps:NO];
[window_ makeKeyAndOrderFront:nil];

to start activating the application when it previously did not. The new behavior reads as more correct so we might have been relying on a bug 😬

I think the thing we need is to be able to call just makeKeyAndOrderFront, will report back if I can get it working in a test

Please fix this 😃 It is essential for certain system utility apps to not steal previous app’s activation.

@ufukomer how do you use this lib?

1. Add to package.json:

"dependencies":  {
  "node-active-app": "github:abhaybuch/node-mac-window",
}

1. Add types if you are using TS:

// node-active-app.d.ts
declare module 'node-active-app' {
  export function makeKeyAndOrderFront(buffer: Buffer): void;
}

1. Instead of calling browserWindow’s show function, override it, or just call makeKeyAndOrderFront function:

import { makeKeyAndOrderFront } from 'node-active-app';

// This is how it looks like for my app but you don't have to do it, just call makeKeyAndOrderFront by passing the native window handle of your BrowserWindow as param.
show(): void {
    if (this.isLocked()) {
       iipc.send(SHOW_MAIN_WINDOW);
    } else if (!this.window.isVisible()) {
      makeKeyAndOrderFront(this.window.getNativeWindowHandle());
    } else {
      this.hide();
    }
}

And don’t forget to try my app https://copaste.app 👯 Thanks to @abhaybuch

Hey @felixrieseberg what’s up on this, I see that it was released only on 28.x.x

It is hard to find out what is going on, can you give an update 🙏