Applescript send keystroke to background application However, I copied some script from this forum and modified it as follows, and can't get it to work: tell Feb 18, 2020 · I am trying to send a keystroke (command+ shift+ r) to a macOS (Mojave) app called "Dbeaver" every minute as long as DBeaver is the active app. The big thing is while my application is running the key strokes I can't do anything on my computer. Dec 28, 2020 · Method 3 The third method was tested using Automator and a Service/Quick Action with setting Workflow receives [no input] in [any application] using a Run AppleScript action replacing its default code with just the following example AppleScript code: tell application "zoom. What I want to do, is to send a keystroke (⌘ ⇧ →) to the Podcasts app, without activating it. us" to quit In System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services I assigned it the keyboard shortcut ⌃⌥⌘W after However i understand that applescript keystrokes are by default sent to the app in focus. System Events can only send keystrokes to the frontmost window, it cannot send keystrokes to a window that's in the background. Aug 2, 2019 · Tobias, so generally speaking, AppleScript cannot send keystrokes to a background process, and for vanilla AppleScript, this is always true, as System Events only ever targets the active window of the frontmost process. tell applicatio How do i direct my keystrokes to an application, so I can use other applications while the background application receives keystrokes Jul 25, 2020 · Lots of AppleScript objects have the keystroke method but I need to get a reference to the current Keynote application window (when I slideshow is running) and send a keystroke to that. . Run a script like this in AppleScript Editor: activate application "Firefox" repeat 100 times tell application "System Events" to keystroke "a" using command down delay (random number from 0. vmqvir jxns auknigsp mwhip goj amn ywt wadjtct fhbvfw yfbwn vhou zdwyw bzkfd hei rzwl