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It's different (IMHO better) on Mac, even though it looks superficially similar. On Mac, there is conceptually a two-level hierarchy of apps and windows. Every
by ptx 5y ago
It's different (IMHO better) on Mac, even though it looks superficially similar.
On Mac, there is conceptually a two-level hierarchy of apps and windows. Every app maintains its own stack of windows. You can switch between apps with a single click (or keyboard command) and then switch between windows in that app's window stack if you want to bring a different one to the top. So a single click och keypress lets you switch between any pair of windows that are topmost in their respective apps. (There is also a keyboard shortcut to switch windows within an app.)
On Windows, you can't switch to apps (only to windows) but the windows are grouped by app into a hierarchical menu, so every time you switch window from the taskbar it takes two clicks and you are forced to hunt through a list of thumbnails.
- politician 5y agoYou sound like you know what you’re talking about, so perhaps you could explain something that I just can’t figure out. I use multiple desktops and run almost every app in full screen. Oftentimes when I focus a window on a secondary desktop that isn’t fullscreen (like a Finder window), then click on the Dock icon of a full screen app, MacOS will focus the primary desktop instead of the desktop with the full screen app. Do you ever experience this behavior? Is there a better way to switch between apps?
- Tempest1981 5y agoThird-party util: https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/ https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/
- ptx 5y agoThe last version I used was 10.4, which didn't have full screen apps, so I don't know. Sorry.