Switching focus on window close

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Hello!

I have a script that opens a new terminal window on a shortcut. The script is pretty straightforward:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Try to create a new alacritty window within the same process.
# If there's no process yet, start a new one.

verbose=false
if [ "$1" = "-v" ]; then
  verbose=true
  shift
fi

if $verbose; then
  if ! alacritty msg create-window; then
    alacritty
  fi
else
  if ! alacritty msg create-window >/dev/null 2>&1; then
    alacritty >/dev/null 2>&1 &
  fi
fi

This prevents spinning up multiple processes of alacritty to avoid cluttering the cmd-tab (old habits die hard) and save a little memory here and there.

The problem I have is that I have one main terminal window in a separate space and then I open ephemeral windows in other spaces when there's a need. However, since they share a process, when I close an ephemeral window, the focus doesn't switch back to the previous app (say, Firefox). The previous app stays unfocused but the menu bar switches to alacritty.

Any advice on how to resolve this issue? Thanks!

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