Determine Applications That Are Running and Not Hidden

[Joel]

@Nige_S

@Joel

As a long time Moom user, I like the idea, perhaps that is easier except the "set" is dynamic.

Not a user, but I thought a point of Moom was that you could grab a "point in time" snapshot of all windows of all apps, then later reapply that to put them back in position. So

1. Grab to Moom tempSet
2. Display change
3. Apply Moon tempSet

I love that idea!

I will look into that, I will also need to check the two screen issue!

@Nige_S

Failing that, it would seem from your description that the problematic items are windows for Parallels Coherence apps that are not hidden. So you don't need to grab all the windows of all the apps -- just those of unhidden Parallels apps. I'm not saying that's easier, but it does reduce the amount of work required!

Agreed and should you look in the macro I sent earlier I have that part figured out. The issue is that is the 80% solution, not teh full monte as it leaves i) fixing the macOS apps on screen 2 and ii) "facing apps", albeit these are minor issues.

@Nige_S

If the above is correct then two other possible approaches suggest themselves:

1. Hide the unhidden apps, make the display change, unhide the apps, or
2. Take Parallels out of Coherence, make the display change, turn Coherence on again

I like solution 1 as well!

It all tracks back to your comment of define the problem and find the best solution! Need / will work at getting better at that!

@Nige_S

Apologies for spitballing rather than given tested solutions -- but I'm not risking doing any of this remotely on my work Mac in case it all goes horribly wrong. I don't fancy a 50-mile round trip to go and hard-reset it!

I greatly appreciate any and all idea / time you can provide so all good, no worries. Wishing you an enjoyable rest of your vacation!