Monday, 26 August 2013

When Terminal forks process, current app loses focus

When Terminal forks process, current app loses focus

While I'm running some program in Terminal (or iTerm2), when the program
forks the process, the OS X desktop switches focus from the current
application to the forked process. When this happens, the forked process
name shows in OS X menu bar.
This is especially annoying while using full screen mode as it causes the
workspace to change when the forked process receives focus.
How can I stop this focus switch from happening? These terminal programs
are interrupting the work I'm doing in other applications while they run.

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