Ping Pong between virtual desktops on MacOs

[simoncn]

I tried your suggestion as an experiment to see whether it would work. The sequence of events is:

1) The user opens window 1 on desktop 1
2) MinimWatch opens window 1 and gives it the focus
3) The user switches to desktop 2
4) The user opens window 2 on desktop 2
5) MinimWatch gives the last window opened (window 1) the focus
6) MinimWatch opens window 2 and gives it the focus

The goal is to make step 6 switch back to desktop 1 and open window 2 on desktop 1 with no toggling. This works if MinimWatch adds a 500ms delay between steps 5 and 6. With a 300ms delay or less, window 2 is opened on desktop 2 with toggling.

Because a Java application can't detect which desktop is selected, this means MinimWatch and MinimServer would need to add a 500ms delay before showing any window, even when there is only a single desktop. I don't think this would be a good trade-off for solving this very rare problem.