Event on CommandOrControl+Tab click

[andrewfan]

I'm working on the application that should appear on the shortcut click. Once user press shortcut I'm toggling window visibility with show\hide methods.

My problem is when window was hidden by shortcut and the user pressed Cmd-Tab i have no event to be able to show the window.

I found similar issue here #2444 it is closed but activate event does not solve the problem (it is simply not firing) also i fond the same issue here
https://discuss.atom.io/t/how-to-detect-the-activation-of-an-electron-window-on-macos-via-cmd-tab/39442

[tkambler]

A follow-up post has been left in the discussion thread that you referenced. Apparently you can tap into the browser-window-focus event. I have not had time to test this yet, but it sounds promising.

app.on("browser-window-focus", () => {
    // This occurs when any window in the app gains focus.
}

[tkambler]

Checking the browser-window-focus event out, and this does not appear to solve this need.

[tkambler]

@andrewfan I have the answer we've been looking for. For reference, see this issue.

The trick is to not hide your application's window, but rather to hide the entire application itself via Window.sendActionToFirstResponder:

    globalShortcut.register('CommandOrControl+Alt+X', () => {
        if (mainWindow.isVisible()) {
            Menu.sendActionToFirstResponder('hide:');
        } else {
            mainWindow.show();
        }
    });

[andrewfan]

@tkambler I'm doing exactly the same and it still does not work for me. For now, I just removed my app from the dock and it made app disappear from app switcher.

[tkambler]

@andrewfan Here is the sample app in which I implemented this. cd into the app dir, npm install, then npm start. Shortcuts are defined in app/lib/main/window.js.

[codebytere]

Closing as stale and seemingly resolved.