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Arun Gupta is a technology enthusiast, a passionate runner, and a community guy who works for Sun Microsystems.
Wednesday December 26, 2007
OSX #5: Alt-Tabbing in Mac (Switching between windows on Mac)
Alt-Tabbing in Windows shows currently open windows and allows to select one of them which then becomes the active window. If there are 3 Firefox windows, then it'll show 3 icons. A slightly different behavior is available in Mac where it shows one icon for all the open windows of an application and then provide a different keyboard shortcut to switch between all the windows of that application.
Switch between different applications: Command+Tab (for example if you have Firefox, Thunderbird and other applications). Shift+Command+Tab moves in the reverse direction.Switch between different windows of the same application: Command+~ (for example if you have multiple windows of Firefox). Shift+Command+~ moves in the reverse direction.
However if the application is minimized then it is not activated (which is bizarre)!
If you are holding the command key and hit Q then that particular application will quit, if you hit H then that application will hide (go behind all the applications?).
A complete archive of all Mac OS X tips are available here.
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