Application Switcher Launch Apps but Not Application WIndows

[Craig_D]

Hey there,
I'm using a 3-finger ⌘click to launch Application Switcher. It launches the app on release (same way ⌘TAB does), but it's only activating the app in the menu bar, not opening the app window. Any suggestions? Thanks!

[Andreas_Hegenberg]

BTT just opens the macOS standard app switcher, this is the default behavior if the app doesn't have a window yet. Or does it behave differently for you when you trigger it through cmd+tab?

[Craig_D]

Hi Andreas,

I'm actually trying to replicate the same functionality of Launchpad within the Application Switcher. I understand this is a macOS functionality, but I suspect there is a way to do it in BTT (as always ). Here's a 1-minute screen recording. MacOS Application Switcher ...

Thanks!
Craig

[Andreas_Hegenberg]

You can use this approach:

App switch and mouse move to active app

you could set an additional "Active App Did Change" (or maybe better Focused Window Did Change) trigger in "Automations, named & other triggers": [image] Maybe also set a variable in your cmd+tab action, and only execute the "Active App Did Change" trigger if that variable has a specific value - and then unset it again. Otherwise this would trigger for any app change regardless of whether you triggered it via cmd+tab or not. Here is an example preset: winswi.bttpreset (7.9 KB)

Here is an example preset:
appswitcher.bttpreset (7.2 KB)

//edit: best just import that example preset, I adapted it for your usecase