local-operator-ui 0.25.2 → 0.25.4

package/README.md

@@ -213,6 +213,33 @@ Contributions are welcome! Please see our [Contributing Guide](./CONTRIBUTING.md
 - Ensure you're using a compatible version of Node.js
 - Try restarting the development server
 
+#### The window came to the front on its own, or a run never appeared
+
+Every time the app brings a window to the front it writes one line to its own
+backend log (`~/Library/Application Support/Local Operator/logs/backend-service.log`
+on macOS; the `LOCAL_OPERATOR_LOG_DIR` environment variable moves it):
+
+```
+[window-raise] trigger=second-instance mode=normal requested=focus pid=9182 cwd=/Users/you/project applied=restore+show+focus
+```
+
+`trigger` names what asked: `initial-present` (the app starting up),
+`second-instance` (a second launch sharing this profile), `banner-click`,
+`viewer-focus` or `viewer-resume`. `pid` and `cwd`, when they are there, name the
+process that asked — that is the one to stop if something keeps doing it. A run
+that raises nothing writes nothing, so an app that never came forward has no line
+at all — although a conversation that is WAITING for a window does: a `headless`
+launch against an app with no window open writes `applied=parked`, `parked=<id>`
+rather than a raise, and that conversation opens the next window you give the app.
+In the line above, `mode` is the window mode the raise ran under and `applied` is
+what it actually did.
+
+A second launch only brings the window as far as IT asked: a `headless` run never
+raises it (it can still load the conversation it names), an `inactive` one orders
+the window without activating the app and without pulling it back out of the
+Dock, and a launch that declares nothing — you double-clicking the app while it is
+already running — still comes to the front.
+
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