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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.
Posted by Arun Gupta in General | Comments[5]
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Hello, I'd like to know what button the ~ is?
I can't remember, and I don't find it either...
Posted by Aasmund on January 11, 2008 at 01:06 PM PST #
This is the "tilde" button - right below Esc in top-left corner.
Posted by Arun Gupta on January 11, 2008 at 03:55 PM PST #
Hi Arun,
An interesting app I installed on my Mac (because the application switcher drives me nuts) is Witch:
http://www.manytricks.com/witch/
This is a window switcher similar to that of Gnome or Windows, meaning that alt+tab will switch amongst *all* open windows of an app. And it will un-minimize apps that have been minimized to the dock.
With this app, I can manage many windows more effectively, bringing up only the window of an app I am interested in, rather than all the open windows for that app. cmd+m will put the window back into the dock...however that introduces a problem of dock clutter! (I wish it was possible to group minimized windows...)
Posted by Gabriel Carrillo on August 06, 2008 at 02:05 PM PDT #
thankyou so much for the ~TAB
this used to really get to me
Posted by james MacNeil on November 22, 2008 at 06:41 PM PST #
Cmd+` doesn't seem to work for OO.org windows. Yet another inconsistency in Mac OS.
Posted by @ibz on February 13, 2009 at 03:03 AM PST #