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		Sean-P on July 12, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MacBook Pro with faster performance and new featur... Yet Apple leaves severe bugs in their terminal, which causes every open terminal to crash, unfixed for years after the bug has been reported. Yet Apple requires 3rd party applications for basic window management: http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/, https://manytricks.com/witch/. Yet Apple presents a macOS API so crippled, that sending a window to the back isn't even directly possible: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/233687/how-can-i-s....

debaserab2 on July 12, 2018 | [–]

I've used Terminal almost every day for the past 10 years and it's not crashed even one time. I can understand why sending a screen to the back wouldn't be a part of the API for security reasons alone. I think you're digging at some pretty niche edge cases.

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