macOS: Standard focus-without-raise shortcut doesn't work

[mitchellh]

See #6859

Reproduction:

1. Launch Ghostty
2. Launch Safari
3. Lay the windows out so they slightly overlap each other in any way you want
4. Focus Safari
5. Control+Option+Click Ghostty

Ghostty should focus but not bring the window to the front. But it does.

Try the reverse with Safari and notice how Safari behaves.

Note: It did work once and I don't know how, but ever since then it consistently does not work.

[liby]

Unable to reproduce. Did you accidentally trigger Shift + Option + Click?

[mitchellh]

Nope, I'm able to reliably reproduce it here. It looks like the issue is our context menu showing up. I think this has to do with the fact that we accept first click.

CleanShot.2025-03-24.at.09.13.48.mp4

[Kamyil]

Yeah, something is wrong with focusing lately. It also broke trying to focus the app by assigning shortcut to Ghostty

either by Raycast

or by Hammerspoon

hs.hotkey.bind({ "cmd" }, "2", function()
	hs.application.launchOrFocus("Ghostty")
end)

I have to double-press the Cmd+2 in order to focus Ghostty properly, while previously I had to only press Cmd+2 once which was instant. I noticed that it started happening after macOS 15.3.?? Sonoma update :(

Raised the discussion here