161: Setup App Showdown

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The Automators Podcast Obsidian Vault is now updated to include episode 161.

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I could use some help on an edge case that I just canā€™t seem to figure out.

Iā€™m trying to create a setup with two electron apps side-by-side in a particular desktop space.

My strategy is to navigate to the space and load the apps in that space (rather than trying to move them from space to space).

I started with Bunch, but I canā€™t get it to start the app Notion Calendar (Bug report here: Problems launching Notion Calendar Ā· Issue #336 Ā· ttscoff/bunch Ā· GitHub)

I swtiched to Shortcuts and when I try to close the apps so that I can open them in the right space (particularly Notion Calendar) it switches focus to the space where that app is currently live.

OK, so I tried to use an apple script to send the keyboard shortcut Cntl-4 which would move to the desired space, but for some reason running

tell application ā€œSystem Eventsā€ to key code 15 using control down

as an apple script is producing a system error (the machine beeps).

I could use the system calendar if I needed to, which might be easier, but Iā€™d stll like to understand what Iā€™m doing wrong.

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OK, itā€™s mostly fixed. I had the wrong keycode for the number 4 (should be 21) and Brett got Notion Calendar to launch.

Iā€™m off!