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I suspect the problem he's dealing with coming from windows is that the Mac OS paradigm is application switching via the dock and Command+Tab whereas in Windows
by rwc 13y ago
I suspect the problem he's dealing with coming from windows is that the Mac OS paradigm is application switching via the dock and Command+Tab whereas in Windows the taskbar and Alt+Tab are window switching.
- nwh 13y agoIn which case alt + ` would be a suitable replacement, as that's the command for window switching.
- shalalala 13y ago'Command' + '~' switches windows in the current app.
- jesseendahl 13y agoFor Windows style window switching (across all applications), use Control + F4. You may also need to hold down the function key if you have your keyboard setup the default way, where things like brightness, volume, etc. are the primary uses of the function keys.
- eyesee 13y agoIt's worth noting that you can remap the key easily from the Keyboard panel in System Preferences. Look under Shortcuts -> Keyboard for "Movie focus to active or next window".
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- rwc 13y agoCommand + ` only works within the app once you've switched. You may only want to switch to one window from an application but Command+Tabbing to it brings all windows from that application on top. It takes some getting used to.
- lmg643 13y agoAppreciate the sympathy. I'm used to minimizing applications to get them out of the way, and alt-tab on windows restores the window you want. on the mac, it only restores a non-minimized window, and command+~ only works if both windows are not minimized. Mission control also doesn't restore minimized windows. Windows Snapping was also a cool feature that isn't native to OSX, you need a third party tool - great to do a side-by-side on spreadsheet/document. And can we get a comment about launchpad? and widgets? considering how good the iOS experience is, the desktop launchpad is horrible. and widgets should be removed, rethought or integrated for sure. both of these strike me as afterthoughts, which is bizarre considering how central they appear when you first set up the OS.
- nwh 13y agoGet used to not minimising things, it's not the flow you should be using on OSX for maximum efficiency. Widgets are antiquated and just there for legacy reasons.
- frou_dh 13y ago> I'm used to minimizing applications to get them out of the way, and alt-tab on windows restores the window you want. Use Hide (Cmd-H).
- plorkyeran 13y agoI use spotlight exclusively to launch applications. Launchpad I used exactly once before unpinning it from the dock. OS X widgets turned out about as well as every other attempt to make desktop widgets. Banishing them to their own virtual desktop solves the problem of it being impossible to use them due to that there's always windows in the way, but it doesn't solve the problem that apparently no one actually has any ideas for desktop widgets that are more than mildly useful.
- DigitalJack 13y agoLaunchpad is good for reviewing what you have installed. Every once in a while I'll go through it and find crap. Forgot about.
- girvo 13y agoBut, doesn't mission control let you switch windows of an app globally? It's the only window switcher I use (swipe up on Magic Trackpad)