Full screen application is displayed hidden when switching from Dock

[hivaoa]

Hello there,

I recently upgraded my MacBook Pro M1 2021 from Monterey to Ventura 13.4 and I have an issue which drives me nuts: when switching some of my apps from the Dock, instead of showing me the app, it shows me my Desktop instead – I can see the app's menu in the top bar though. I have to click again on the Dock icon of the app to make it appear.

• There is a person on the Apple forums that described exactly the same problem but nobody answered: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254382320.
• I also found here some similar posts but which were more about switching problems with Cmd+Tab, not the Dock:
  • https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...s.2346982/page-11?post=31301496#post-31301496

I tried different things just like the person on Apple's forums such as restarting the Dock, restarting the system, upgrading to 13.5, deleting the windowserver.plist file, deleting Dock preferences file etc. Nothing. I also tried with a new user, same behavior. I looked at the console but I couldn't find something interesting. Also run most of the Onyx maintenance tasks but no chances. Stage manager is disabled.

I don't seem to have any problems when switching from Cmd+Tab. The only clue I have is that it seems that this bug also impacts Mission Control (or it comes from Mission Control?). When the bug occurs, I am indeed switched to the "Desktop" Mission Control screen instead of the app's full screen space.

I attached a video of the problem : I'm on my terminal, want to switch to Safari, I click on the dock Icon of Safari but got redirected to the Mission Control's screen of the Desktop instead.

Thank you in advance for any help! If I could avoid reinstalling everything, that would be nice

 

[stevenaaus]

Good luck with this bug report
Full screen Apps have had this type of bug ever since they rewrote how they're (meant to) behave shortly after Snow Leopard IIRC.

Part of their iOS-ification of macOS that QA has written off, and will forever be buggy imho.

 

[svenmany]

I looks like it's initially switching to the wrong space. Do you have the setting "When switching to an application, switch to a Space with open windows for the application" turned on?

 

[hivaoa]

I looks like it's initially switching to the wrong space. Do you have the setting "When switching to an application, switch to a Space with open windows for the application" turned on?

Sorry for the late answer. Unfortunately, this doesn't fix the problem.

I don't seem to have this bug when I have an external monitor plugged in. I can't imagine we are only a few to have this bug. It is insane and make macOS unusable.