Cmd+Tab opens the Application Switcher. Continuing to press Tab cycles through the user’s open apps. But you can also press the ` key to cycle through the apps in the reverse order.
BTT has an action to open the Application Switcher and cycle forward through the apps, but there is no way to activate the backwards cycling.
This would be an excellent addition.
This is the action you are looking for "Move Selection In Active Window Switcher Up"
Thank you but this does not seem to be working for me. I have one keyboard shortcut set up to activate the Application Switcher (cmd+/) and another with the action you just shared (cmd+.), but it’s not doing anything. Any ideas?
You need to activate (cmd+/) the window switcher first (make sure "Activate Selected After Releasing Modifier Keys" is disabled otherwise it will hide) and then use cmd+.
I think maybe you’re mixing up Window Switcher with Application Switcher?
I got it working on the Window Switcher, but the Application switcher is Apple’s native switcher that you activate with cmd+tab, and that’s the one I’m trying to make work
You are totally right. In that case I have no idea since I'm not using it.
Actually now that I’m exploring BTT’s Window Switcher for the first time, I think I actually may prefer it to the native switcher… so this may be an even better solution than the one I was hoping for! Thanks for the help ~
I've tried to solve this. The below is creating your cmd+\ trigger and another one for cmd+. and I think it is achieving what you want.
[
{
"BTTLastUpdatedAt" : 1776673041.585325,
"BTTTriggerType" : 0,
"BTTTriggerClass" : "BTTTriggerTypeKeyboardShortcut",
"BTTUUID" : "BA1198FC-73BF-4894-A51F-0D6D9B03D066",
"BTTAdditionalConfiguration" : "1048584",
"BTTShortcutScope" : 0,
"BTTShortcutKeyboardType" : 2302,
"BTTTriggerOnDown" : 1,
"BTTLayoutIndependentChar" : "/",
"BTTShortcutKeyCode" : 44,
"BTTShortcutAdvancedModifierKeys" : "1048584",
"BTTShortcutModifierKeys" : 1048576,
"BTTOrder" : 75,
"BTTAutoAdaptToKeyboardLayout" : 0,
"BTTActionsToExecute" : [
{
"BTTLastUpdatedAt" : 1776667694.44311,
"BTTTriggerParentUUID" : "BA1198FC-73BF-4894-A51F-0D6D9B03D066",
"BTTIsPureAction" : true,
"BTTUUID" : "CD12CE3A-33E9-49DF-B1FC-F7990FC42D87",
"BTTPredefinedActionType" : 46,
"BTTPredefinedActionName" : "Application Switcher",
"BTTOrder" : 405
}
]
},
{
"BTTLastUpdatedAt" : 1776674494.791971,
"BTTTriggerType" : 0,
"BTTTriggerClass" : "BTTTriggerTypeKeyboardShortcut",
"BTTUUID" : "2D4184A2-F665-4C6D-9B79-746284FD818A",
"BTTAdditionalConfiguration" : "1048584",
"BTTShortcutScope" : 0,
"BTTShortcutKeyboardType" : 2302,
"BTTTriggerOnDown" : 1,
"BTTLayoutIndependentChar" : ".",
"BTTShortcutKeyCode" : 47,
"BTTShortcutAdvancedModifierKeys" : "1048584",
"BTTShortcutModifierKeys" : 1048576,
"BTTOrder" : 76,
"BTTAutoAdaptToKeyboardLayout" : 0,
"BTTActionsToExecute" : [
{
"BTTLastUpdatedAt" : 1776674349.451442,
"BTTTriggerParentUUID" : "2D4184A2-F665-4C6D-9B79-746284FD818A",
"BTTIsPureAction" : true,
"BTTUUID" : "3A68C0DF-7654-43DC-8D13-FC89A948BCCE",
"BTTPredefinedActionType" : 195,
"BTTPredefinedActionName" : "Run Apple Script (async in background)",
"BTTAdditionalActionData" : {
"BTTScriptType" : 0,
"BTTAppleScriptUsePath" : false,
"BTTScriptLocation" : 0,
"BTTAppleScriptRunInBackground" : true,
"BTTAppleScriptString" : "tell application \"System Events\"\n key code 48 using {shift down, command down}\nend tell"
},
"BTTInlineAppleScript" : "tell application \"System Events\"\n key code 48 using {shift down, command down}\nend tell",
"BTTOrder" : 3
}
],
"BTTTriggerLauncherConfig" : {
"BTTLauncherShowInLauncher" : 0
}
}
]
Man I appreciate that you did this for me but I’ve actually been using BTT’s window switcher as a replacement for the native application switcher and I’m finding that I prefer it. I didn’t even know about the window switcher until you brought it up so thank you for that!
Hey there, I’m thinking of trying this out after all. Could you give me a little more info on how exactly to set this up? (I have very very little coding experience)
Copy the code block I've shared above and paste it under the "Keyboard shortctus" section.