G-dH / advanced-alttab-window-switcher

A highly customizable replacement for Gnome Shell's Alt-Tab window and app switchers.
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[FEATURE] Allow displaying the switcher on all monitors #107

Open ianmackinnon opened 6 days ago

ianmackinnon commented 6 days ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. The extension provides several options for the “Default Monitor” setting, although all of them support only a single display. Thus, when switching focus from one monitor to another, the switcher will often be on a different monitor to the window where focus is desired. If one naturally looks at the window one wants to use while switching, it is often necessary to look back at another monitor to see the switcher and determine which window will have focus. If several windows have similar appearance, it may be necessary to look back and forth between monitors several times to compare the preview with the window itself before selecting the right preview and dismissing the switcher.

Describe the solution you'd like A further option to “Default Monitor” such as “All Monitors”, which would cause the switcher to be rendered on every display at once.

Additional context The original problem can be somewhat mitigated by setting the option “Show Selected Window” to “Show Preview”. Though it still seems the option to display the switcher on all monitors would be a nice addition to this extremely useful extension.

G-dH commented 6 days ago

I'm afraid that such an option would bring more issues than it would solve. AATWS can't see what you are looking at, but it can see which monitor the mouse pointer is on. You can also use Shift+Arrows or Ctrl+Tab to navigate the popup between monitors.