Circular App Switcher

Setup/Preset Sharing
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This forum has become really powerful, which is why I have decided to deprecate share.folivora.ai and instead only use the forum for sharing presets. This is why I'm moving various popular presets from share.folivora.ai here.

Description of what you are sharing
A Radial App Switcher Floating Menu.
You can show it using either a three finger swipe down.

image
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Preset:
RadialAppSwitcher.bttpreset (13.3 KB)

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Hi! Newbie here…how do I reconfigure the Radial App Switcher so that it is triggered by a long left click on Magic Mouse rather than three finger swipe on a trackpad?

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Unfortunately long-left-clicks are complex, especially in combination with floating menus that should immediately be interactive. I'll check soon whether I can come up with a good example.

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Hi Andreas,

Many thanks for your reply.

Understood. How would I reconfigure the Radial App Switcher so that it is triggered by some other predefined Magic Mouse gesture that would not be complex in combination with floating menus?

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Hi Andreas, just following up; could you please tell me how (what steps to perform) to reassign the circular app switch from the three finger swipe down to a Magic Mouse triple right-click or other Magic Mouse trigger that is not complex?

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Hey @Andreas_Hegenberg any idea why not all for example open Finder windows (none minimized) are brought to front if Finder is selected in the menu? Any way to solve this?

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you can use this script instead to bring all windows to front:

async function retrieveJSON() {
    let apps = await BTTActions.copyLaunchedApplicationsInFrontToBackOrder();
    let menuItems = [];
    let i=0;
     for (let app of apps) {
     if(i>9) {break;}
     i++;
    let item = {
  templateItemUUID: "BFBD1B46-0E72-49CF-B4DB-C2CB017E82B2",
    title: "",
      action: `js::(async () => {await trigger_action({json: JSON.stringify({  BTTPredefinedActionType: 177,  BTTAppToShowOrHide: "${app.BundlePath}",   BTTShowHideAppConfig: '{\"BTTShowHideSpecificAppMoveToSpace\":\"BTTShowHideSpecificAppHiddenToCurrentSpace\",\"BTTShowHideSpecificAppOnlyShow\":false,\"BTTShowHideSpecificAppOnlyHide\":false,\"BTTShowHideSpecificAffectedWindow\":\"BTTShowHideSpecificAppAffectAllWindows\",\"BTTShowHideSpecificMinimizeInstead\":false,\"BTTShowHideSpecificAppRegex\":\"\",\"BTTShowHideSpecificAppOnlyTreatActiveAsVisible\":true,\"BTTShowHideSpecificAppOnlyIfRunning\":false,\"BTTShowHideSpecificAppCMDN\":false,\"BTTShowHideSpecificAppMoveToCurrentSpace\":false,\"BTTShowHideSpecificAppMoveAllToCurrentSpace\":false}', }), wait_for_reply: false});})()`, 
      icon: `path::${app.AppIconPath}::width@@40`
    };
    menuItems.push(item);
  } 
  
 
  return JSON.stringify(menuItems);
}
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nice! Thx.

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Hi @Andreas_Hegenberg, not sure whether this is the "official" answer to my question, but it did work on my installation.

  1. Built the circular app switcher under the Custom Floating Menus / Widgets & BTT Mobile trigger list.
  2. Switched to the Magic Mouse trigger list and clicked the + button.
  3. Added the circular app switcher to the new trigger, assigned a gesture (three-finger swipe down) to it.

Could you please tell me how to change the size of the apps' icons so that they are the same size as the ones in the screen capture at the top of this thread? Thanks in advance!

Screenshot 2025-08-05 at 12.09.33 PM
Screenshot 2025-08-05 at 12.09.33 PM2392×798 180 KB

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This doesn't work for BetterTouchTool Configuration (anymore) and maybe some other apps.

macOS: Sequoia (15.6.1)
BetterTouchTool: 5.570