Timeline fills with hundreds of events from a single app (Adobe Illustrator)

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• OS name and version: Windows 10
• ActivityWatch version: v0.13.2

Describe the bug

I worked for a couple hours on Illustrator and the Timeline got filled with entries that last just seconds, as if I was alt tabing every couple seconds out of the app.

To Reproduce

I think this is happening because in Illustrator you can enter a special windowed mode, which is essential for my workflow. You can enter such windowed mode by presing TAB. Steps to reproduce the behavior, for example: 1. Go to Illustrator (any version up from 2016) 2. Press tab multiple times for a couple of minutes 3. Watch the timeline

Expected behavior

A single entry that spans along the entire tested minutes should be appearing.

Documentation

aw-watcher-window_2025-07-29T11-56-37.log

Additional context

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