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lwouis / alt-tab-macos

Windows alt-tab on macOS
https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app
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Do not list a floating/always-on-top window in the switcher #2448

Closed caioquirino closed 1 year ago

caioquirino commented 1 year ago

Is your feature suggestion related to a problem? Please describe. I am really satisfied with this app, it is working very similarly as the standard Windows alt+tab, but the only thing that annoys me a bit is the fact that always when my MS Teams meeting lose focus, it opens a floating window that gets the second focus, so I have to Alt+Tab twice to go to the next window. In a nutshell, when I have the floating MS Teams window, I have to press Alt+Tab twice to go to the next window.

Describe the solution you'd like I would like to be able to ignore the floating / always-on-top windows as they are always showing up anyway, or fix the focus order for them so it don't mess with my Alt+Tab order

Describe alternatives you've considered

  1. Make possible to ignore all the floating windows
  2. Make possible to ignore specific floating windows (like the blacklist way)
  3. Correct the focus for the floating windows so they are not stopping the single-alt+tab from changing to the previous window
lwouis commented 1 year ago

Hi,

AltTab already filters out panels, huds, alerts, and other not-really-a-window. I'm not sure what the floating windows you are talking about look like exactly, but it sounds like they probably shouldn't be coded as windows. Please open a ticket with Microsoft Teams, and they may help you by updating their UI to better reflect the importance of this floating window. Then AltTab will simply not show it, like other secondary UI elements like floating panels.

The other solutions you suggested are either not possible or too niche to be implemented.

Thank you 🙇

caioquirino commented 1 year ago

@lwouis Then I would say it is a bug because when I open a MS Teams meeting and lose its focus, a floating window appears and that is influencing in the Alt-tab behaviour. Do you need any help to reproduce the steps?

lwouis commented 1 year ago

a floating window appears and that is influencing in the Alt-tab behaviour

It influences AltTab because it's a full-on window. If you think it shouldn't be a window (and thus AltTab should ignore it), then please contact Microsoft and ask them to change that window to a floating panel, HUD, etc. Basically not a main window, but a helper UI element.