macOS: Application stealing focus
A few weeks ago I had an issue with a macOS system which focus kept being stolen by an unknown application. All the windows were displaying as inactive so it had to be a background process.
A StackExchange user called medmunds had adapted a script from another post, that seems to have been modified from another from some Apple forum. Isn’t the Internet great?
His script very quickly displayed the culprit. Very useful indeed.
#!/usr/bin/python try: from AppKit import NSWorkspace except ImportError: print "Can't import AppKit -- maybe you're running python from brew?" print "Try running with Apple's /usr/bin/python instead." exit(1) from datetime import datetime from time import sleep last_active_name = None while True: active_app = NSWorkspace.sharedWorkspace().activeApplication() if active_app['NSApplicationName'] != last_active_name: last_active_name = active_app['NSApplicationName'] print '%s: %s [%s]' % ( datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'), active_app['NSApplicationName'], active_app['NSApplicationPath'] ) sleep(1)