Mastering the Mac App Switcher: Essential Tips and Hidden Tricks (www.macrumors.com)
from cantankerous_cashew@lemmy.world to apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world on 18 Feb 22:04
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tyler@programming.dev on 19 Feb 07:34 next collapse

Essential tricks:

  1. Use AltTab
  2. Nothing else. The Mac app switcher is terrible
Mongostein@lemmy.ca on 19 Feb 08:45 next collapse

Why do non-Mac users bother commenting here?

ieatpwns@lemmy.world on 19 Feb 19:08 next collapse

But alt tab works on a Mac it’s what I use at work

Mongostein@lemmy.ca on 19 Feb 21:33 collapse

command-tab

zeezee@slrpnk.net on 20 Feb 16:03 collapse

the app is called AltTab

tyler@programming.dev on 22 Feb 04:01 collapse

The app is called AltTab. I’m literally a Mac user.

EtzBetz@feddit.org on 19 Feb 21:28 collapse

Can it display/switch to a specific window of an open application? That’s my biggest gripe with the default switcher.

B0rax@feddit.org on 20 Feb 15:03 next collapse

The default switcher can do it… right click on the icon of the application.

EtzBetz@feddit.org on 20 Feb 15:54 collapse

Not for full screen windows I think

tyler@programming.dev on 22 Feb 04:00 collapse

Yes it can

EtzBetz@feddit.org on 19 Feb 17:54 next collapse

I still don’t understand, how somebody at apple implemented this and just thought “ah, full screen apps and selection between multiple instances of an app, who even needs that?”

rollerbang@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 18:02 collapse

I switch between multiple instances of an app on a regular basis.

Hiro8811@lemmy.world on 19 Feb 18:45 next collapse

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Mongostein@lemmy.ca on 19 Feb 21:37 collapse

Wow, a bunch of assholes in here.

A bunch of assholes that don’t seem to realize that no one gives a shit if you don’t like Mac OS

This is a community for people who do. Grow up.

OP: thanks, I learned a couple useful tips from this.

tyler@programming.dev on 22 Feb 04:03 collapse

I do like macOS, if your comment was aimed at me. In fact it’s my favorite OS. The default switcher is terrible. It’s pointless to talk about something if you think it’s perfect. This article wouldn’t even exist if that were the case. The best solution to the default switcher is literally to not use it, because it doesn’t make sense in any workflow. AltTab solves it.