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lwouis / alt-tab-macos

Windows alt-tab on macOS
https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app
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Switch to a different app, ignoring same app's windows #3452

Closed koterpillar closed 3 months ago

koterpillar commented 3 months ago

Is your feature suggestion related to a problem? Please describe. I would like to reserve Alt-` to switch between the same application's windows, and Alt-Tab to always switch to a different application.

Describe the solution you'd like Add a "Other apps" option to "Show windows from:" selector and perhaps make it default for Alt-Tab.

lwouis commented 3 months ago

Hi,

It's an interesting idea. However, I think it's quite niche. No one has requested this in 4 years.

I'll close this issue, but please, if you are interested in it, upvote or comment here. This way, if we see an interest for many people here, we can reconsider adding the feature.

Thank you

koterpillar commented 3 months ago

Would you be open to a PR?

lwouis commented 3 months ago

Hey @koterpillar,

The code change is quite easy, so the issue is not implementation effort. The issue is keeping the number of preferences low. If we add a preference for everyone preference a few users have, the preferences panel will become overwhelming. It is already the case actually.

Please see #351 for the direction we are ahead towards

Thank you

koterpillar commented 3 months ago

For posterity: this is the default behaviour of Gnome, which I tried to replicate with this app. It is not the default behaviour of Windows 11, so unfortunately it is niche.