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This is about as close as I can get to opening an app in the background from AppleScript.
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open_in_background_kinda.scpt
-- can't get `open -g` to work...
tell application "System Events"
set prevApp to name of first process whose frontmost is true
end tell
tell application "mpv" to launch
tell application prevApp to activate
tell application "mpv"
open "thing_to_open"
end tell
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