Why is my application pausing when starting on Mac through Steam?

almo · 2018-05-12T18:13:51.000Z

Why is my application pausing when starting on Mac through Steam?

When our game is run on Mac through the Steam client, it appears that the window immediately loses focus after creation, and, if it’s not running fullscreen, is sent behind all other windows on the desktop. The player then has to cmd-tab to the game...

So this has been asked before about older versions of Unity. I’m still getting a problem like this using 2017.4.2f2. The solutions in the linked question are really not what I’m looking for. This is concerning builds on OSX.

When running the game from Steam, it is paused and does not have focus when it starts.

If I set it to RunInBackground, it runs fine, but still does not have focus, so it throws out the first click on the menu.

almo · 2018-05-13T14:00:27.000Z

Got it.

In your launch options, Steam’s default is:

Cognizer.app/Contents/MacOS/Cognizer

Don’t do that. Just put

Cognizer.app