Merge pull request #12228 from electron/fix-window-open-not-showing

Parent's visibility trumps inherited 'show' option

lib/browser/guest-window-manager.js

@@ -47,8 +47,16 @@ const mergeBrowserWindowOptions = function (embedder, options) {
     options.webPreferences = {}
   }
   if (embedder.browserWindowOptions != null) {
+    let parentOptions = embedder.browserWindowOptions
+
+    // if parent's visibility is available, that overrides 'show' flag (#12125)
+    const win = BrowserWindow.fromWebContents(embedder.webContents)
+    if (win != null) {
+      parentOptions = {...embedder.browserWindowOptions, show: win.isVisible()}
+    }
+
     // Inherit the original options if it is a BrowserWindow.
-    mergeOptions(options, embedder.browserWindowOptions)
+    mergeOptions(options, parentOptions)
   } else {
     // Or only inherit webPreferences if it is a webview.
     mergeOptions(options.webPreferences, embedder.getWebPreferences())

spec/chromium-spec.js

@@ -223,6 +223,26 @@ describe('chromium feature', () => {
       b = window.open(`file://${fixtures}/pages/window-open-size.html`, '', 'show=no')
     })
 
+    for (const show of [true, false]) {
+      it(`inherits parent visibility over parent {show=${show}} option`, (done) => {
+        const w = new BrowserWindow({show})
+
+        // toggle visibility
+        if (show) {
+          w.hide()
+        } else {
+          w.show()
+        }
+
+        w.webContents.once('new-window', (e, url, frameName, disposition, options) => {
+          assert.equal(options.show, w.isVisible())
+          w.close()
+          done()
+        })
+        w.loadURL(`file://${fixtures}/pages/window-open.html`)
+      })
+    }
+
     it('disables node integration when it is disabled on the parent window', (done) => {
       let b
       listener = (event) => {