AltTab – Windows alt-tab on macOS
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AltTab – Windows alt-tab on macOS
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Re: AltTab – Windows alt-tab on macOS
#2Oh wow, this is great! I have tried other window-based application switchers but never really liked how they worked. I understand that macOS has a app-centric model but I find that switching between windows works so much better for me.
Re: AltTab – Windows alt-tab on macOS
#3What's wrong with Command + Tab?
Re: AltTab – Windows alt-tab on macOS
#4Some feedback from a mac user (if this is your project): The only description of the functionality on the page is "brings the power of Windows’s “alt-tab” window switcher to macOS." As someone that hasn't used Windows in years, this doesn't actually tell me anything. What does this do that command-tab and command-` don't already do in mac?
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#5I use a keyboard mapper (better touch tool in my case) to configure Option+Tab to switch between windows of the same app. So I am constantly using Command+Tab and Option+Tab all the time, I think I could never come back. I also did not understand what this app brings, is it a preview of those windows?
Re: AltTab – Windows alt-tab on macOS
#6Some feedback from a mac user (if this is your project): The only description of the functionality on the page is "brings the power of Windows’s “alt-tab” window switcher to macOS." As someone that hasn't used Windows in years, this doesn't actually tell me anything. What does this do that command-tab and command-` don't already do in mac?
It eliminates the hierarchy of windows being necessarily part of an application. Alt-Tab on windows shows only open windows ordered by last time as the focused window with no grouping by application.
Re: AltTab – Windows alt-tab on macOS
#7What's wrong with Command + Tab?
Nothing's wrong with it, unless you prefer alt-tab to switch windows. I personally prefer to choose my own adventure.
Re: AltTab – Windows alt-tab on macOS
#8What's wrong with Command + Tab?
It switches between applications, not windows.
Re: AltTab – Windows alt-tab on macOS
#9What's wrong with Command + Tab?
It's inefficient after a decade or more of AltTabbing in Windows becomes a muscle memory that is thought-flow breaking when having to un-train that automatic keyboard reflex.
Re: AltTab – Windows alt-tab on macOS
#10I recently found an old app called Snap which automatically assigns apps to Cmd + number depending on their order in the dock (or you can manually assign them).
I have Chrome as the first app in the dock, so it's Cmd+1. Slack is second and is Cmd+2.
It's so simple. I love it. I tried to achieve the same with Automator but it was unreliable.