I recently got a Mac for work, and one thing is really bothering me. For windows and linux there is a concept called "direct window switching," which allows changing windows without regard to which application they are a part of. I typically have dozens of windows and apps open at once, but I'm focused on the 2 most recent image viewers and 2 most recent browser windows. Currently, in mac I have to use a combination of cmd+tab
and `cmd+`` to switch between these most recent windows. On linux, I had a key combo that would cycle windows of all types, (not applications or windows of an app type). Is there an equivalent somewhere? I can make one using phoenix js if I really need to, but that's a pain.
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You can cycle 'all windows' with Ctrl/F4, but though it theoretically steps back trhough windows in the order they were last selected, in practise it's horribly unreliable & stops when it thinks it's got to the last window. Not recommended. I'd have a look at good Spaces management instead. More reliable. See superuser.com/a/1187552/347380 and apple.stackexchange.com/a/179403/85275– TetsujinJul 19, 2022 at 6:35
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Also see apple.stackexchange.com/a/193938/85275 for some of the other foibles of single-app window switching.– TetsujinJul 19, 2022 at 6:36
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