Switch to Desktop folder when Finder activates

Questions & Suggestions
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Looking to have the Desktop folder switched to if it is not the current frontmost Finder window when I switch to the Finder from another app.

Tried the macro below with no luck. It's in the Global Macro Group.

Switch to Desktop folder when Finder activates

Suggestions?

2

What's the trigger on the macro? Just putting it in the Global Macro group won't make it run. This macro seems to work for me:

Download Macro(s): Switch to Desktop.kmmacros (2.7 KB)

Macro screenshot

Keyboard Maestro Export
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Macro notes
  • Macros are always disabled when imported into the Keyboard Maestro Editor.
    • The user must ensure the macro is enabled.
    • The user must also ensure the macro's parent macro-group is enabled.
System information
  • macOS 14.4.1
  • Keyboard Maestro v11.0.2

-rob.

3

I don't think you need the "frontmost window" test in either case -- for me, if "Desktop" is already the frontmost window the "Open" action does nothing, and if a "Desktop" window is already open but not frontmost the action activates the already-existing window. It doesn't just keep spawning extra "Desktop" windows unnecessarily.

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Oops :man_facepalming:

Thank you

5

Thank you.

This answers why I've gotten spawning windows over the years. That's helpful.