Keep focus on multiple desktops

I am a new macbook user. I have switched from windows pc recently. Currently I own a macbook pro 15.4 2018 edition. I am using it along with my 32 inch monitor.

A silly problem i have facing is that whenever I am using an application in desktop1 that is on the macbook itself but if i click another application on desktop2 (external monitor) the application on my macbook pro(desktop1) loses its focus. (vice versa).

So when i want to go back to that application (in desktop1) clicking something inside that application, first click is just wasted to get the focus for that application. Thats different from windows experience. Is there any workaround to keep focus on both the desktop?


Solution 1:

In short, no.

You cannot ever have two applications in focus at the same time, on any OS - key commands wouldn't know which app to operate on.

The Windows paradigm of the first click actually being read as an instruction is just one that Apple have never used.
In recent years, there are some actions you can do on first click - closing a window by clicking the red dot, or you can scroll whichever window your cursor is over, without ever needing to activate it, for instance, but mainly the paradigm is & always has been that the first click activates, the next click operates.

It is one of those things you just have to get used to - for people used to Macs, the Windows paradigm is equally frustrating.