The black border of the "activated" window. You can see all 4 sides of the empty window here, though the left side is pretty much the same as the background [steam]. You can see the Maximize and Close buttons at the upper right (just above and to the right of the Marvel Snap logo).What am I supposed to see in that picture? What did you minimize? What did you restore?
Screenshot probably woulda worked better with a white background
What I did? I minimized a TCC window then restored it with activate like you demonstrated here, except with "activate restore".
It's something I used to do all the time to bring a minimized command line to front if it asked me a question (i'd restore the window prior to displaying a prompt). I might have a long process that takes minutes/hours/days to run and asks something at the end. I would use 'window restore' to bring the window back. Or I would have a monitor that doesn't bring a command line back until a subordinate program it calls closes (example vlc.exe for vlcplayer. I usually launch that from CLI. After i'm done watching the show, i want that CLI to come back to front).
This doesn't work with the window command, and is something I've missed in the year or two since I've switched to Windows Termnal.
yea, it doesn't work with activate either. Well it does, but it doesn't. The "window" is restored, but nothing is in it and it's not usable. Kinda makes sense, since with multi-tabbing how would we even restore just one tab? We'd have to restore all of Windows Terminal and then also technically move to the right tab.
It's still a neat trick though. It's more than the window command could coax out of the situation. And I'll look to this for other activate commands, but so far the only one "missing" with the migration to Windows Terminal, which i actually use, is 'window restore'. I used 'window maximize' and 'window minimize' sometimes but it's the 'window restore' that was always most useful to me in past decades.