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Re:Why I use old hardware by frou_dh on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @11:18AM (#18979545)
What's ridiculous is condemning something based on your own ignorance. The keyboard shortcut is Cmd-Backtick ("Cycle Through Windows") and it works in all macOS applications.

There's simply a more sharply defined distinction between applications and windows. Cmd-Tab is for application switching.

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Re:Why I use old hardware by gcb0 on Thursday January 24, 2019 @03:36PM (#18992655)
you happen to be talking to someone graduated in UX design. and from my high horse I often don't fall for personal taste when writing UI critic :)

if the user wants to move to a terminal window they have open in the background, which key combination do they press? alt+tab or alt+backtick? they have to stop and actively think about which current window is highlighted. is it the browser? or another terminal? this completely kills the action fluency of a keyboard shortcut.

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Re:Why I use old hardware by tkxxx7 on Saturday January 26, 2019 @06:00PM (#19009125)
> is it the browser? or another terminal?

This is generally a non-issue, but even if you are getting tripped up consistently, the OS literally tells you at all times what application currently has focus

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