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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] Unity Style App Selection #116

Open xSeekTruthx opened 3 months ago

xSeekTruthx commented 3 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

When using app switcher, it would be very cool to have the Unity Style of switching.

Describe the solution you'd like

The basic app switcher remains the same with number of windows for each app labeled by a number. However, while you are still holding the modifier key and the app with multiple windows is highlighted, it will then show all windows for that app after a short ms defined delay. When it does this, you can further select through, continuing to hit the secondary key until the desired window is highlighted. Then upon release of the modifier key, the window is brought to front.

Alternatives/Context

This is the behavior in Unity and would be really cool to have a tick button to set "Unity Style" in the App Switcher section. With a delay slider for pop-up, and maybe a size modifier for the window previews.

G-dH commented 3 months ago

I'm not sure if I understand correctly, but in the app switcher you can use the key above Tab to switch between windows of the selected app, while the Tab key can be used to switch back to the app switcher.

xSeekTruthx commented 3 months ago

I'm not sure if I understand correctly, but in the app switcher you can use the key above Tab to switch between windows of the selected app, while the Tab key can be used to switch back to the app switcher.

Interesting. Yes this is very similar. The main difference is that it would happen automatically after a defined ms delay, and without having to hit any different keys to navigate. Once you pass the last window of the app, it moves onto the next app in app selection.

G-dH commented 3 months ago

Also in the window switcher, the key above Tab reorders windows by app and switches between the first windows of each app.

xSeekTruthx commented 3 months ago

Also in the window switcher, the key above Tab reorders windows by app and switches between the first windows of each app.

Thank you for the alternative options.

Would love to achieve what I described above to mirror Unity functionality, w/o using a third key. Helpful for accessibility folks.

G-dH commented 3 months ago

I understand, but my time is really limited right now, and features like this have a very low priority.