Ventura Beta - detect status of Stage Manager

[edjusted]

Probably a long shot...but can anyone think of a way to detect the status of the new Stage Manager feature in MacOS Ventura beta?

Here's my use case...the new Stage Manager is pretty neat, but it destroys all of my previous window sizes/positions after I exit it, including my open Finder windows.

As a workaround, I use an app called Stay that memorizes and restores window sizes/positions.

So I'd like to craft a macro that automatically launches Stay when I exit Stage Manager. The idea is, whenever I exit Stage Manager, Stay will run, and a few seconds later, all of my windows will be where they were before I entered Stage manager mode.

[vincent_ardern]

Easiest way to do this is to have a hotkey that runs a macro. The macro then handles triggering stay, followed by triggering stage manager. At the end of your session the same hotkey and macro can do it in reverse, I.e. exit stage manager, and run Stay again.

[edjusted]

Thanks! I like that approach.

[edjusted]

Here're my macros for anyone interested.

Stage Manager - toggle Macro (v10.1.1)

Stage Manager - toggle.kmmacros (4.7 KB)

restore all windows via Stay Macro (v10.1.1)

restore all windows via Stay.kmmacros (1.6 KB)