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I got used to switching between open windows in an application on my other mac (US keyboard: command + tilde.

This doesn't really work on swiss german keyboards, since the tilde is generated with: alt + n. Pressing command + alt + n behaves the same as command + n, that is, the applications tend to open new windows instead of cycling existing ones.

Any tips?

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Never mind, I just figured it out by myself:

It turns out, on swiss german keyboards, the shortcut for cycling through windows is not command + tilde but instead command + backtick. The backtick is on the same key as caret, which is the first key to the left of the backspace key. Therefore, I need to press:

command + shift + ^
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This does not work on my German keyboard. – gentmatt Mar 23 '12 at 12:05
@gentmatt: For the german keyboard, it may work with command + < and command + > resp. Check it out here – Karsten S. Jul 3 '12 at 7:08

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