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I have certain applications set to open in certain spaces, but would like them to open in the background and not switch the space just so I can watch them open.

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This will prevent any autoswitching of Spaces, which meets your criteria, but does other things, too, that you may not want:

defaults write com.apple.dock workspaces-auto-swoosh -bool false
osascript -e 'tell application "Dock" to quit'
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Thanks; I'll give it a try. Do you know what other things? Do I just set the boolean back to true to undo it? – Philip Oct 17 at 21:39
@Philip: Yes, setting it to true will undo that. – Chealion Oct 17 at 23:39
@wfaulk, yes, what are the "other things" this command does? – Josh Oct 28 at 16:52
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@Josh: largely that Cmd-Tab switching to an open application will not switch to a Space with an open window. Basically anything that would automatically switch you to a different space will be disabled. – wfaulk Oct 28 at 20:09
Too bad there doesn't seem to be anything that can just solve the problem without the unwanted side effects. Bummer. – Philip Jan 12 at 3:39

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