I'm seeing lots of instances where the "Hide Other Applications" action doesn't work right recently. I have this action on a hotkey (F2), and some applications seem to be fighting hiding - BUT, if I manually go to the application menu and go to "Hide Others", it works.
For example, I was in BBEdit just now, and pressed F2, the Numbers window in the background stayed visible. Without doing anything else I went to the BBEdit menu and went to "Hide Others", and Numbers dutifully disappeared.
I'm not sure if this is related, but I recently updated to macOS 15.5.
I also noticed a problem with the Application Switcher recently where an application that was running wasn't shown in the switcher. I don't recall now if that was before or after the OS update though.
Here, KM is in the background, the foreground app and window is Calendar, but KM thinks that KM is at the front, and as expected, my macros for window moving/resizing are effecting the KM window, not Calendar.
I've been getting these errors recently as well. I assume KM looks to make sure the app activated, but doesn't see it, so this error gets triggered:
After quitting and re-opening Calendar, it started working properly.
I have a theory that this happens when an application is restored after a reboot - but I haven't tested this.
I can't replicate that problem using your instructions. I tried.
The timeout probably occurs exactly 20 seconds after the action because the default timeout for the Activate a Specific Application action has a 20 second timeout by default.
What does it mean you "restore an application"? Are you dragging applications between folders? I agree, that's suspicious.
Yeah, I suspect it's not something that's easy to replicate unfortunately.
When you leave an application open, but restart your computer. When it boots back up, the application automatically re-opens.
I know it doesn't make much sense logically, but this process seems to work somewhat differently than when you manually open an application.
For example, I can consistently replicate a problem with the Arc app when rebooting/reopening after reboot. After reboot Arc is open, but I can't interact with it - I have to quit the app and re-open it manually then it works fine. I feel like I've seen this happen with a few other applications as well, but I haven't paid close enough attention.
Well right. Ignore that one, it’s a strange issue and has nothing to do with KM. Calendar in this case was working. My guess is it’s a bug in the OS or in some of Apple’s apps. So far I’ve seen issues with KM with Numbers and Calendar.
