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Cmd-tab and pulling app vs user

Open rpc31 opened this issue 8 months ago • 4 comments

One of my biggest annoyance with cmd-tab is that apps are too much little smart when it comes to desktop occupancy

  1. If an App (ex. mail) is assigned to non desktop (by default) and opened in desktop 1 (ex. personal). If I cmd-tab (or alt-tab) this app from desktop 2 (ex. work), then I am "pulled" myself to desktop 1, losing context of what I wanted to write.

  2. If an App (ex. mail) is assigned to all desktops, then, let say I am writing an email on desktop 1 (personal) and quickly want to see an operation being run on chrome on desktop 2 (work), then Mail is "pulled" with me and I have to hide it to see what I wanted to see.

Can Yabai handle this kind of issue ?

Is there a way, when I use command tab to select a running macOS app on another desktop, to "pull" and bring the app to my current desktop rather than me being pulled to where lives the app? (or to automatically "hide" the focused app when I switch to another desktop?)

rpc31 avatar Jun 10 '24 22:06 rpc31