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Some 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” windo

Some 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?

SOTGO 4y ago
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.
- jeffbee 4y ago
  It doesn't really eliminate it because you are still going to have to switch modes to navigate a tabbed interface within a window.
SparkyMcUnicorn 4y ago
I started using this to provide customization rather than being Windows-like. It's pretty customizable, so everyone's experience and preferences will be different but here are some of mine. 1. Command + Tab > Cycle all windows, within all spaces, on active screen (rather than all screens). 2. Command + ` > Same as above, but only for the focused/active application. 3. Customized size of thumbnail, font, items per row, and overall screen real estate. 4. Mouse location = active screen 5. Hidden windows show at the end of the cycle
- jasonlotito 4y ago
  Pretty sure this also doesn't bring windows to the front when selected, either.
mort96 4y ago
One absolutely huge limitation of macOS (IMO) is that cmd-` doesn't let you switch to windows on other workspaces. That means, if you have, say, one terminal window on one workspace and one on the other, there's no easy way to switch to the terminal window on the other workspace.
- klodolph 4y ago
  Use cmd-tab, and while holding command, press up/down arrow on an app. This will show all windows open in that app, regardless of workspace. Minimized windows will be at the bottom.
- pmontra 4y ago
  This is very subjective matter and any of us would like our own customized desktop. You probably organize your workspace in a different way than I do. I associate virtual desktops with customers on my Linux machine plus one for me. (Those should be workspaces on a Mac.) I have one terminal open in every desktop, one editor window in every desktop, one Firefox window in every desktop plus whatever I need for a given customer. I really don't want to alt tab to windows in a different desktop. It has no purpose in my setup because I want to stay within the boundaries of the customer I'm working for. I'm pretty sure this is the default behavior but I can bet there is a way to tweak it. Plenty of extensions to customize the GNOME desktop.
krferriter 4y ago
It enables you to actually switch between windows, not between applications. If you have 3 windows of Chrome open, on Mac if you alt-tab to it it raises all 3 windows to the top of the desktop window stack, hiding any other windows which may overlap with one of these Chrome windows. This is very inconvenient if you want to be able to still see another window, say, TextEdit, you have open but it becomes hidden by Chrome window 2 you don't care about that got raised to the cover the TextEdit window merely because you switched to Chrome window 1. Switching directly to one single window is very clunky on MacOS by default.
- klodolph 4y ago
  Command-tab already does this. Just keep holding command, use the up/down arrow to drill into the windows for the selected application. Play around with it you’ll figure it out. It looks like this tool just simplifies it and gets rid of the hierarchy, so you don’t have to remember which application owns the window you’re looking for.
  - phil-martin 4y ago
    That sounds really useful, but I've tried every combination I can think of, and tried to read documentation, but I can't get my Mac to do that. I press command+tab, keep holding command, and then press up or down arrow, and the list of application icons just fades from view. Any chance you could point me in the right direction?
  - Phrodo_00 4y ago
    Doing that just brings up that app's exposé for me.
  - cheeze 4y ago
    It might already do it if you hit up and down arrow, but my muscle memory and preference is windows-style. As someone who switches between the two often, I just want consistency and prefer the windows approach.

SOTGO 4y ago

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.

jeffbee 4y ago
It doesn't really eliminate it because you are still going to have to switch modes to navigate a tabbed interface within a window.

SparkyMcUnicorn 4y ago

I started using this to provide customization rather than being Windows-like. It's pretty customizable, so everyone's experience and preferences will be different but here are some of mine. 1. Command + Tab > Cycle all windows, within all spaces, on active screen (rather than all screens). 2. Command + ` > Same as above, but only for the focused/active application. 3. Customized size of thumbnail, font, items per row, and overall screen real estate. 4. Mouse location = active screen 5. Hidden windows show at the end of the cycle

jasonlotito 4y ago
Pretty sure this also doesn't bring windows to the front when selected, either.

mort96 4y ago

One absolutely huge limitation of macOS (IMO) is that cmd-` doesn't let you switch to windows on other workspaces. That means, if you have, say, one terminal window on one workspace and one on the other, there's no easy way to switch to the terminal window on the other workspace.

klodolph 4y ago
Use cmd-tab, and while holding command, press up/down arrow on an app. This will show all windows open in that app, regardless of workspace. Minimized windows will be at the bottom.
pmontra 4y ago
This is very subjective matter and any of us would like our own customized desktop. You probably organize your workspace in a different way than I do. I associate virtual desktops with customers on my Linux machine plus one for me. (Those should be workspaces on a Mac.) I have one terminal open in every desktop, one editor window in every desktop, one Firefox window in every desktop plus whatever I need for a given customer. I really don't want to alt tab to windows in a different desktop. It has no purpose in my setup because I want to stay within the boundaries of the customer I'm working for. I'm pretty sure this is the default behavior but I can bet there is a way to tweak it. Plenty of extensions to customize the GNOME desktop.

krferriter 4y ago

It enables you to actually switch between windows, not between applications. If you have 3 windows of Chrome open, on Mac if you alt-tab to it it raises all 3 windows to the top of the desktop window stack, hiding any other windows which may overlap with one of these Chrome windows. This is very inconvenient if you want to be able to still see another window, say, TextEdit, you have open but it becomes hidden by Chrome window 2 you don't care about that got raised to the cover the TextEdit window merely because you switched to Chrome window 1. Switching directly to one single window is very clunky on MacOS by default.

klodolph 4y ago
Command-tab already does this. Just keep holding command, use the up/down arrow to drill into the windows for the selected application. Play around with it you’ll figure it out. It looks like this tool just simplifies it and gets rid of the hierarchy, so you don’t have to remember which application owns the window you’re looking for.
- phil-martin 4y ago
  That sounds really useful, but I've tried every combination I can think of, and tried to read documentation, but I can't get my Mac to do that. I press command+tab, keep holding command, and then press up or down arrow, and the list of application icons just fades from view. Any chance you could point me in the right direction?
- Phrodo_00 4y ago
  Doing that just brings up that app's exposé for me.
- cheeze 4y ago
  It might already do it if you hit up and down arrow, but my muscle memory and preference is windows-style. As someone who switches between the two often, I just want consistency and prefer the windows approach.