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Weird display issue on OS X Lion when switching external monitor
I'm using a MBP with a second (external) monitor and since I upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion, I encountered some display issues that appear in the Application Switcher, and sometimes in the ...
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How do I kill the Application Switcher?
All of the sudden the Application Switcher's graphics breaks:
Restart does help, but became a nuisance. How can I kill it? Restart it?
UPDATE: Logging off fixed this.
UPDATE 2: I came to a ...
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Application Switcher is minimizing apps
At some point when I reinstalled Mac OS X Lion, the application switcher started minimizing apps so that when I switch to one all others minimize.
This causes problems when working with my ...
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Possible to use Command+Tab to bring up only top Window?
If you switch to an open application in Alfred, it only brings up only the window on top of the windows stack for that application, i.e. only the most recently focused window of that application. Is ...
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Is there a faster app switcher than a keyboard shortcut linked to an Automator service?
I want to switch apps faster than cmd-tab so I created an automator task to launch an app and linked to to a keyboard shortcut through the keyboard preferences. While this works okay without any third ...
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Really switch among all the applications by shortcuts
I am using Mac OS X 10.7.3. ⌘+tab is used to switch among different applications, but sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. I guess it is because some applications are hidden or ...
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how to get Finder to automatically open a Finder window / or always keep one open?
Let's say I have all my Finder windows closed. I'm in an application, like let's say Google Chrome. I ⌘-tab to the Finder icon to switch to Finder. But it shows me nothing... no windows, because I ...
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Is there a way to split the Cmd-Tab app list onto multiple rows?
Is there an app/program for OS X that will "split" the list of open apps that appears when you hit ⌘-tab into multiple rows?
This is the default behaviour for Windows 7 and it's really quite useful ...
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Is there an alternative to Application Switcher with search?
On Windows, I've been using Switcher and the one feature that I really like is being able to switch to applications by typing in portions of their title. Is there an application for Mac OS X (10.7) ...
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Lion: Task switcher icons are badly discolored
when I press command-Tab to get the task switcher icons, to let me change the foreground program, I am seeing that after a little while, the icons are badly miscolored. Anybody else seeing this bug? ...
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Stop mouse interfering with Cmd + Tab menu
When pressing cmd + Tab the mouse can steal focus of a program icon. This is frustrating.
Is there a setting to make the cmd + Tab ignore the mouse?
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Why are some apps greyed out when Command+Tab'ing through programs?
Sometimes when I switch through programs using the Command+Tab shortcut certain programs appear to be greyed out. I can switch to the program in question with no problems nor is there anything ...
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Strange colors in the application switcher (cmd+tab) [duplicate]
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Weird display issue on OS X Lion when switching external monitor
Recently my application switcher has broken. The colors looks very odd and it doesn't help to kill ...
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How can I use command+tab to switch between windows of the same app in addition to all the other apps? [duplicate]
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Best app to switch between all open windows (alternatives to Witch)
I would like to see all the windows, including from the same app, when I switch between them ...
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How can I open something in Mac with same Application every time
I want to play videos always by VLC or GOM player but when I chose Open with-other-then I chose the App and I check for "always open with" = it does work but not all the movie in same extention will ...
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Improving Cmd-` app window switching - MRU order and/or preview
Using the Cmd-` shortcut to switch between windows in an application is inefficient for me when there are more than two windows since they are cycled through in a fixed order and there is little ...
