How to start IDE in the background?

[Axolotl]

Maybe I am too stupid to find the right switch.
I am looking for a setting that starts the IDE in the background.
Since I have many files open, the IDE is brought to the foreground every time a file is loaded.
Thanks in Advance.

[Quin]

what OS?
Cannot reproduce, but I actually want that behavior. If I press enter on a .pb file in explorer while I already have one open, the IDE isn't brought to the foreground, windows 10 21H2 and Windows 11 24H2.

[Axolotl]

I (mostly) work with Win11 Home.
The described behavior can be observed with the Setting: Auto-reload last open sources
The thing is, I really have a lot of open sources .... (I know, my bad).
In your scenario, I would definitely have the IDE in the foreground.

[Piero]

Did you try this (flashes AND timeout)?
https://www.elevenforum.com/t/change-fo ... -11.14363/

PS: Saw your post and wanted the opposite, but it didn't work… so in case please tell me what settings you had to get foreground on open!

[Axolotl]

well, its very interesting.
I am doing some cleaning with my old Win10 notebook to prepare it to move to linux (some day).
And with PB 6.11 (x64) it looks like the way I like it. Only the Splash Screen is in foreground (because I do not check the Disable Splash Screen).
My General Settings are always the same:
[x] Run only one instance
[ ] Disable Splash Screen
[x] Memorize Window positions
[x] Auto-reload last open sources ; <== I would like the IDE to load these files in the background, not the single files selected by double click ...
[x] Display full Source Path in TitleBar
[ ] Enable accessibility features

=> So different behavior on my two computers:
1: Win10 + PB 6.11 (x64)
2: Win11 + PB 6.21 (x64) latest beta

[Axolotl]

Checked on Win11 again with PB6.20 (x64) final and PB6.21 latest beta.
No difference between this setting. (of course the splash screen is visible or not depending on the setting)
[ ] Disable Splash Screen
and
[X] Disable Splash Screen

Behavior:
With each file that is loaded, the IDE is also brought to the foreground.
It seems that there is no setting to change this.

P.S. I will not create a change request for this.