Subject: Re: [Moom Talk] Switching to a snapshot does not bring all windows to front

From: Rob Griffiths <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 09:10:29 -0800

On Jan 25, 2016, at 9:03 AM, David Stimpert <[email-masked]> wrote:

> From my experience, when I choose to switch to a snapshot, it properly resizes the windows for each application, but it does not bring them all to the front, so I still have to minimize any windows that are in the way, or CMD + TAB to each of the snapshotted apps until they are all in front.  Is there a way to get all the apps to come to the front?

No, Moom can't bring them all to the front, mainly because OS X doesn't really have 'layers' that we can just arbitrarily move windows between. The only way to bring them all to the front would be an incredibly (visually) annoying method of activating each window in turn, so you'd see them all cycle to the foreground ... and even then, we'd have to guess where you'd want to stop, i.e. which app is in the foreground when we finish cycling.

In short, there's no elegant way for us to make the snapshot bring all of its windows in front of any other existing windows.

regards,
-rob.

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From: David Stimpert <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 09:03:56 -0800 (PST)

>From my experience, when I choose to switch to a snapshot, it properly 
resizes the windows for each application, but it does not bring them all to 
the front, so I still have to minimize any windows that are in the way, or 
CMD + TAB to each of the snapshotted apps until they are all in front.  Is 
there a way to get all the apps to come to the front?