Grunt Watch doesn't trigger until terminal has focus

[mserranom]

I have a grunt watch task that seems to be working with other devs on my team, and for the most part works for me. HOWEVER it only seems trigger when I click into the terminal containing the grunt task (giving the terminal window the OS window focus). The IDE losing focus is not an issue as I've clicked into a browser window and it still did not trigger.

In case it matters, I'm using OSX (Mavericks), IntelliJ IDEA 13.1.6 (also watching files to be placed on our dev server), Grunt 0.4.5, and grunt-contrib-watch 0.6.1.

[manumena]

Same here, Ubuntu 16.04

[joelhoisko]

Same here on Ubuntu 17.04, running grunt default through npm, with the command start associated with grunt default in `package.json, like so:

"scripts": {
    ...
    "start": "grunt default",
    ...
  },

Terminal: urxvt-256 Window manager: i3-gaps

[sdistefano]

Same here and massively painful. Has anyone found a workaround?

[ZissisT]

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and issue still exists. I have to run grunt tasks manually every time I change something.