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Such a common flaw indeed, though I think it might be more of an OS convention rather than the brilliance of Mac launchers, same as being able to have an app wi
by eviks 3y ago
Such a common flaw indeed, though I think it might be more of an OS convention rather than the brilliance of Mac launchers, same as being able to have an app without any windows on a Mac
For frequently used apps at least you could have shortcuts via AutoHotkey that do exactly that
- switch to an existing app if it's running,
- open a new one if it's not, and
- minimize an existing app if it's already focused
- jwells89 3y agoYeah this gets into how on macOS, applications != windows and instead, windows are hosted by applications, and while it’s technically possible to run multiple instances of an application, in practice this is almost never done outside of debugging-type situations. If you have, say, multiple Firefox windows open, on macOS they belong to the same parent Firefox process while this is not necessarily true on Windows and Linux. This turns every launcher into a switcher if the app in question is already open. Even a two line AppleScript will behave this way.