Make apps available on every space

[acheronfail]

Haven't looked into it - not sure if it's possible. It would be nice if the activated apps were available on every space.

Meaning, automating:

1. right-click on dock icon
2. click on Options
3. select All Desktops

Or something which provides the same functionality.

[acheronfail]

After some research, it seems it might not be possible to do this easily to other applications. For an application we own, it's trivial (https://stackoverflow.com/a/12233351/5552584) but there doesn't seem to be any way to get an NSWindow reference of another application.

We can probably automate this via the accessibility API, here's a proof of concept applescript:

tell application "Dock" to activate
tell application "System Events"
	tell process "Dock"
		set frontmost to true
		activate
		
		tell list 1
			perform action "AXShowMenu" of UI element "<APP_NAME>"
			keystroke "Options"
			keystroke return
			keystroke "All Desktops"
			keystroke return
		end tell
	end tell
end tell

I wonder if there are any alternative ways of doing this (maybe modifying some system plists? com.apple.dock?).

[acheronfail]

Not sure if there's a legit non-hacky way to do this via the normal APIs, so gonna close this for now.