{"id":46300,"date":"2025-01-02T13:50:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T18:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=46300"},"modified":"2025-02-07T14:54:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T19:54:03","slug":"two-foreground-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/02\/two-foreground-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Foreground Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toot.community\/@betalogue\/113731573310668456\">Pierre Igot<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/toot.community\/@betalogue\/113731573310668456\"><p>1) In the Finder, select an item and make its name editable.<\/p><p>2) WHILE THE NAME IS EDITABLE, click on the window of ANY ANOTHER APP to leave the Finder in the background.<\/p><p>3) Click on ANOTHER Finder window to bring the Finder back to the foreground.<\/p><p>Result: TWO FOREGROUND WINDOWS!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a really old bug.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/24\/big-surs-sidebar-translucency\/\">Big Sur&rsquo;s Sidebar Translucency<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/06\/visual-comparison-of-macos-catalina-and-big-sur\/\">Visual Comparison of macOS Catalina and Big Sur<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"two-foreground-windows-update-2025-01-14\">Update (2025-01-14): <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@lapcatsoftware\/113822161623580773\">Jeff Johnson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@lapcatsoftware\/113822161623580773\"><ol><li>Select some text in a web page in Safari<\/li><li>Click in Finder to activate<\/li><li>Right-click on the text in Safari to bring up the contextual menu<\/li><li>Left-click in Safari to dismiss the contextual menu<\/li><li>Left-click again in Safari to &ldquo;activate&rdquo; the window<\/li><\/ol><p>The window appears to be active, but it mostly doesn&rsquo;t work: hover effects, link clicks, command-w, etc.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>This happens for me, too.<\/p>\n\n<p id=\"two-foreground-windows-update-2025-02-07\">Update (2025-02-07): <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@lukaskubanek\/113930071123691950\">Lukas Kubanek<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@lukaskubanek\/113930071123691950\"><p>The very same issue was reported by a user of my Mac app, who initially thought it was a bug in my app. It turned out to be a window management issue, just as you say. Reported it back then as <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/structuredpath\/AppleBugReports\/blob\/main\/FB15944020\/README.md\">FB15944020<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pierre Igot: 1) In the Finder, select an item and make its name editable.2) WHILE THE NAME IS EDITABLE, click on the window of ANY ANOTHER APP to leave the Finder in the background.3) Click on ANOTHER Finder window to bring the Finder back to the foreground.Result: TWO FOREGROUND WINDOWS! 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