LookAway
LookAway
Mar 5

LookAway steals focus from frontmost app

If I'm watching a video and press F to enter fullscreen, LookAway will steal the keyboard/mouse focus and I can't press space to pause, or F to exit fullscreen, unless I click again on the video. To reproduce this, you might need to cycle entering and exiting fullscreen once or twice, it seems inconsistent the first time. Since going fullscreen relies on Spaces in Mission Control, this seems caused by another bug, which you can easily reproduce by opening two Chrome windows (each in a separate Space), making them frontmost in each Space, and flicking back and forth between these Spaces. You'll see the windows' traffic light controls go gray, because LookAway gets in the foreground instead of Chrome. If you press cmd+T you'll bring up a macOS font selector panel attached to LookAway, not opening a new tab in the Chrome window.
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Apr 10, 2026

That's weird, I can't reproduce it either now. Maybe I was on an old version since I rarely reboot my Mac. Anyway thanks, I really like v2.

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changed status toUnder Review·Mar 30, 2026
Mar 30, 2026

hi Thomas, which version of LookAway are you running? I am not able to reproduce this.

Mar 11, 2026

I think this only happens with "Video playback" enabled under "Smart Pause".