Prerequisites

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Description

On MacOS Catalina 10.15.7, Atom 1.53 (installed via homebrew) doesn't display a window at launch when launched via icon (click on icon) or via launcher (e.g. Alfred or Spotlight) but does produce one when launched via the 'atom' command in a terminal

Steps to Reproduce

1. Click on Atom icon or launch via launcher (Spotlight or Alfred)

Expected behavior:

Main Atom window created

Actual behavior:

No window is created. No window can be opened via keyboard shortcut or by trying to open recent documents.

Reproduces how often:

Reproducible 100% of the time

Versions

atom --version
Atom : 1.53.0
Electron: 6.1.12
Chrome : 76.0.3809.146
Node : 12.4.0

apm --version
apm 2.5.2
npm 6.14.8
node 12.4.0 x64
atom 1.53.0
python 3.7.9
git 2.29.2

Additional Information

Behaviour is as expected if atom is launched from the command line via the command 'atom'.

This seems related to issue #21013