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Send Click To Another Window Without Losing Focus
This is a fun trick for MacOS -- you can Cmd+Click on a window that is out of
focus to send a click to that window without transitioning focus from the
current window to that one. Put another way, you can click-through on an
inactive window without changing the active window.
Let's say I have my logseq notes window focused. In the
background is a Chrome window that I'm referencing as I type notes. However
there is a pop up obscuring the Chrome window. Typically to dismiss that pop up,
I'd have to click on Chrome once just to transition focus to Chrome. Then I
would have to click the x to dismiss the pop-up. Then I would have to click
back on the logseq window to transition focus back to it.
Instead, I can hold down cmd as I click on the x in Chrome. The click will
get sent through to Chrome dismissing the pop up and logseq will remain the
focused window. That's one click instead of three.
I wish I could remember where I learned this trick so that I could give credit. I have a feeling it might have been Justin Searls though. And I unfortunately cannot find any official Apple documentation on this.
One thing to note is that while this will probably work across most apps, I believe it can be overridden by certain apps that implement custom UIs.