How do I bring a window to the front, without "switching" apps in electron?

Question

So for example lets say the user has Chrome open in full screen. Then a popup comes from the electron app, but it overlays on the chrome screen instead of switching screens to the electron app.

Like the VPN app below;

How would i go about doing this?

Answer 1

To focus a window, you can use: window.show().

If your on a mac and it's in a different workspace then it won't show. You would need to run: window.setVisibleOnAllWorkspaces(true) on the window when the window is being created then window.show() when you want it to show.

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setVisibleOnAllWorkspaces docs

Answer 2

I found a solution that seems to work for this! So this is assuming you've already figured out how to show a window above full screen apps in general. The issue I had with that is that when you try to bring a new window into view, it takes you out of fullscreen, even if that window is configured to show above fullscreen apps.

To deal with this the solution was simple:

mainWindow.hide()
mainWindow.show()

setTimeout(() => displayPopupWindow(data), 300)

In this case, your main window (which can be invisible) is given focus while still having the fullscreen app open, then opening the popup window will not close the fullscreen app.