Window Closes After Other Application Quits

[tmutimer]

If I use cmd-Q to quit an app, then because some apps take a second or two to quit, I can bring up the Alfred window (cmd-space for me), sometimes, before the app closes. However, when the app then finishes closing, the Alfred window disappears as well.

 

This is a problem because I'm often already typing the next thing I want to do in Alfred, and it just vanishes in front of me.

 

Alfred 3.6.2

macOS 10.13.6

[vitor]

Hello @tmutimer,

 

This is a know case, and has no simple fix.

 

[Andrew]

@tmutimer this is actually a known issue which I've talked to Apple technical about. Alfred, by design, yields focus to other apps. The issue here is that Alfred isn't told where that event comes from. If Alfred had more information fed to him in the event, he could differentiate between which focus events could be ignored.

 

I still have an internal ticket for this, but for now, I'm going to move this to noted.

 

Cheers,

Andrew