How to make Desktop active?

Question

it's easy to make a window become frontmost by click it or tell it to active,
except Desktop, it won't be the frontmost window of finder when we click on the desktop,
so,
is there anyway to make the desktop "active"? when click on it.

Answer 1

This is the only way I can think to do what, I believe, you're asking for:
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title="Copy this text and paste it into your Script Editor application.">global isFront
on run
set isFront to false
end run
on idle
tell application "System Events" to set curApp to name of processes whose frontmost is true
if curApp as string is "Finder" and isFront = false then
tell application "Finder"
activate
if (count of windows) is 0 then make new Finder window
set target of window 1 to folder "Desktop" of home
end tell
set isFront to true
else
if curApp as string is not "Finder" then set isFront to false
end if
return 2
end idle</pre>
1.) Paste the above script into the AppleScript Editor
2.) Select "Save As…" from the "File" menu
3.) Name it whatever you like, select "Application" as the "File Format", click the check box next to "Stay Open" and then click the "Save" button
4.) Launch the script application by double clicking on it
The above script will run until you manually quit it. Basically, whatever script you create will have to poll the system quite regularly to figure out if the Finder is the current frontmost application. This inevitably eats up a small amount of CPU over and over and over again. Not really advisable.
Best thing to do… Create an alias of your Desktop folder and drag that to the right side of the Dock. Any time you want to open the Desktop folder, just click on the alias of your Desktop on the Dock.
Hope this helps...