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Keyboard Maestro - App switcher, macros, and more
Authored by: nomaded on Nov 10, '04 04:10:33PM

Does the window switcher do Windows-style switching?

For example, I have 2 apps running, appA and appB.
Each app has 2 windows open, appA-0, appA-1 and appB-2 and appB-3.

If I have window appA-1 focused, I use my mouse to select window appB-2, can I use the window switcher (or even the app switcher) to quickly toggle between windows appA-1 and appB-2?



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Keyboard Maestro - App switcher, macros, and more
Authored by: aixccapt99 on Nov 10, '04 04:59:57PM

I know you're asking about Keyboard Maestro, but this can be accomplished by mixing cmd-tab and cmd-` (same key as the tilde ~) with just the regular OS X.

cmd-tab switches applications
cmd-` switches windows within the front application (you might have to turn this on in Keyboard prefs)

So if your two windows are in different apps, use cmd-tab to switch back and forth -- the ones you want will be topmost within their application. If they're in the same app, use cmd-`



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Keyboard Maestro - App switcher, macros, and more
Authored by: nomaded on Nov 11, '04 02:58:03PM

Unfortunately, the drawback to that is that cmd-tab will bring the previous app and all it's associated window up to the top. I just want to toggle between 2 windows, whether they're from the same app or different apps, without changing the z-order of all the other windows on my desktop.



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Keyboard Maestro - App switcher, macros, and more
Authored by: johnsbrn on Nov 12, '04 06:48:13AM

This isn't exactly what you're looking for, but command-` switches between windows of an open app just like command-tab switches between open apps



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Keyboard Maestro - App switcher, macros, and more
Authored by: mahakali on Nov 18, '04 12:42:50AM

There's a way to switch windows from one application to another by pressing control-F4. To change the shortcut, go to System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Keyboard Shortcuts. Under "Keyboard Navigation", there's an item called "Focus on Window (active) or next window". Clicking on its shortcut column will let you to enter a new shortcut.

Pressing the shortcut+shift will reverse the behavior (e.g. if you have yours set to control-F4, pressing control-shift-F4 will activate the previous active window).

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