How to "un-minimize" (aka restore, un- miniaturize) an app's windows with Alfred?

[luckman212]

I'm trying to make a universal hotkey workflow that will "un-minimize" an app's windows-  the ones with those pesky diamonds next to them e.g.

 

 

No matter what I've tried, it's failing to work. I spent a good 3 hrs on this today and basically got nowhere. Here's a snippet of code that (mostly) works when run from Script Editor, but it fails miserably when put inside an Alfred osascript of NSAppleScript object:

 

tell application (path to frontmost application as text)

  try

    set miniaturized of windows to false

  end try

  try

    set collapsed of windows to false

  end try

  try

    set minimized of windows to false

  end try

end tell

 

This works (again, in Script Editor only...) with Safari, Chrome, Messages.app, Apple Remote Desktop, Calendar, Contacts, and others. It does NOT work for Finder.app, Sublime Text (and probably a bunch of others).

 

Anyone know of a way to do this? Even if it only works 90% of the time? Right now I am stuck at 0.

Edited January 28, 2021 by luckman212

[vitor]

On 1/28/2021 at 10:14 PM, luckman212 said:

but it fails miserably when put inside an Alfred osascript of NSAppleScript object

First you’ll need to figure out why. While I understand the frustration, “fails miserably” gives us no information. Is there an error message?

 

If your script acts on the front most app and it works in Script Editor but not Alfred, they may be seeing different front most apps. Start by changing your script to just output the name or path to the front most app

and try it again in both places. See if there’s a difference. That will bring you closer to the root of the problem.

[luckman212]

Thanks Vitor. I'll try to present some better info. For now, I'm experimenting with accomplishing this using Hammerspoon, seems that might be more efficient.