Re:Show HN: Alt-tab-macos – Windows-style alt-tab on macOS
by rsync on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @11:49AM
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"Do people know about CMD+Tilde to switch windows within an app? CMD+Tab to the App and Tilde to the Window?"
I am perfectly happy with the default behavior of CMD+TAB for switching between apps - mainly because, as in every other DE, CMD+TAB has a memory and will allow you to toggle immediately between "last used". So, no matter what order the app-stack is in, you can switch to some app with CMD+TAB and then rapidly switch back and forth.
BUT, CMD+` has no such memory. You cannot switch to a different window of an app and then rapid-fire CMD+` back and forth.
Put simply: the behavior of CMD+` and CMD+TAB are different, but shouldn't be.
This has been the case since forever (in my case, Leopard) and it makes me wonder what people who actually work at Apple are doing with their computers that they did not hate-fix this 11 years ago.
I am perfectly happy with the default behavior of CMD+TAB for switching between apps - mainly because, as in every other DE, CMD+TAB has a memory and will allow you to toggle immediately between "last used". So, no matter what order the app-stack is in, you can switch to some app with CMD+TAB and then rapidly switch back and forth.
BUT, CMD+` has no such memory. You cannot switch to a different window of an app and then rapid-fire CMD+` back and forth.
Put simply: the behavior of CMD+` and CMD+TAB are different, but shouldn't be.
This has been the case since forever (in my case, Leopard) and it makes me wonder what people who actually work at Apple are doing with their computers that they did not hate-fix this 11 years ago.