CMD + Tab to CTRL + TAB

Configuration Help & General Discussion
1

First time user here.

I would like to remap CMD + Tab to CTRL + TAB in my Zen browser.
Switching these around is simple. But making it so the original tab switching behavior including CMD pressed down with TAB to next or SHIFT + TAB previous is preserved, I cannot get to work.

There's a post from 2018 referring to Karabiner.

I'm sure there's a simple way to achieve this. I tried low level remapping but that changes it System wide it seems, although configured in the BTT Keyboard shortcuts menu for the browser app.

Thanks.

2

Perhaps it's too obvious but may I bump this?

3

Hm, I'm not 100% sure I understand, but I've just tried the following in Firefox and in MS Edge (I do not have Zen browser) and it is working as expected:

[
  {
    "BTTActionCategory" : 0,
    "BTTLastUpdatedAt" : 1746477278.5197601,
    "BTTTriggerType" : 0,
    "BTTTriggerClass" : "BTTTriggerTypeKeyboardShortcut",
    "BTTUUID" : "1A739D33-FD2B-4500-AD6F-4D7B44FD994C",
    "BTTPredefinedActionType" : 366,
    "BTTPredefinedActionName" : "Empty Placeholder",
    "BTTAdditionalConfiguration" : "1048584",
    "BTTKeyboardShortcutKeyboardType" : 2302,
    "BTTTriggerOnDown" : 1,
    "BTTNotesInsteadOfDescription" : 1,
    "BTTLayoutIndependentChar" : "TAB",
    "BTTEnabled" : 1,
    "BTTEnabled2" : 1,
    "BTTShortcutKeyCode" : 48,
    "BTTShortcutModifierKeys" : 1048576,
    "BTTOrder" : 8,
    "BTTAutoAdaptToKeyboardLayout" : 0,
    "BTTAdditionalActions" : [
      {
        "BTTActionCategory" : 0,
        "BTTLastUpdatedAt" : 1746477158.8032169,
        "BTTTriggerParentUUID" : "1A739D33-FD2B-4500-AD6F-4D7B44FD994C",
        "BTTIsPureAction" : true,
        "BTTTriggerClass" : "BTTTriggerTypeKeyboardShortcut",
        "BTTUUID" : "66262C85-7186-4D65-9C9D-2C83B9ED6F31",
        "BTTLayoutIndependentActionChar" : "TAB",
        "BTTShortcutToSend" : "62,48",
        "BTTKeyboardShortcutKeyboardType" : 0,
        "BTTEnabled" : 1,
        "BTTEnabled2" : 1,
        "BTTShortcutKeyCode" : -1,
        "BTTOrder" : 4,
        "BTTAutoAdaptToKeyboardLayout" : 0
      }
    ],
    "BTTGestureNotes" : "Go next tab"
  },
  {
    "BTTActionCategory" : 0,
    "BTTLastUpdatedAt" : 1746477291.958802,
    "BTTTriggerType" : 0,
    "BTTTriggerClass" : "BTTTriggerTypeKeyboardShortcut",
    "BTTUUID" : "301D426D-C16A-430D-93E4-C9E12B6A3007",
    "BTTPredefinedActionType" : 366,
    "BTTPredefinedActionName" : "Empty Placeholder",
    "BTTAdditionalConfiguration" : "1179658",
    "BTTKeyboardShortcutKeyboardType" : 2302,
    "BTTTriggerOnDown" : 1,
    "BTTNotesInsteadOfDescription" : 1,
    "BTTLayoutIndependentChar" : "TAB",
    "BTTEnabled" : 1,
    "BTTEnabled2" : 1,
    "BTTShortcutKeyCode" : 48,
    "BTTShortcutModifierKeys" : 1179648,
    "BTTOrder" : 9,
    "BTTAutoAdaptToKeyboardLayout" : 0,
    "BTTAdditionalActions" : [
      {
        "BTTActionCategory" : 0,
        "BTTLastUpdatedAt" : 1746477181.4138498,
        "BTTTriggerParentUUID" : "301D426D-C16A-430D-93E4-C9E12B6A3007",
        "BTTIsPureAction" : true,
        "BTTTriggerClass" : "BTTTriggerTypeKeyboardShortcut",
        "BTTUUID" : "2A667EF0-A71C-4EFB-B015-1C0DD89CD33C",
        "BTTLayoutIndependentActionChar" : "TAB",
        "BTTShortcutToSend" : "62,56,48",
        "BTTKeyboardShortcutKeyboardType" : 0,
        "BTTEnabled" : 1,
        "BTTEnabled2" : 1,
        "BTTShortcutKeyCode" : -1,
        "BTTOrder" : 5,
        "BTTAutoAdaptToKeyboardLayout" : 0
      }
    ],
    "BTTGestureNotes" : "Go previous tab"
  }
]

You can copy this code and paste it directly under the Zen's triggers.

4

Thanks for the idea.
Your preset does let me navigate back/forth through Chrome's tabs.

But what I wanted to achieve is the following. Please take a look at this video from Zen Browser behaviour.

First, I demonstrate that CMD+TAB switches back and forth between the two most recent tabs.
Then we have CTRL+TAB which let's choose any tab. This works as you would expect by keeping CTRL pressed down and using TAB or SHIFT+TAB to navigate through the tabs.

What I want to achieve is to swap CMD and CTRL so that both of these functions switch as well.
So in my initial post I mentioned that it's easy to just swap CMD for CTRL. However, the TAB and TAB+SHIFT behavior I don't know how to remap as well.

So basically instead of CTRL+TAB / CTRL+SHIFT TAB I want to have it as CMD+TAB / CMD+SHIFT TAB and the other function (switching back/forth between most recent two tabs) remapped from CMD+TAB to CTRL+TAB.

Basically switch the functions around since ZEN Browser does not let me configure this.

Hope that helps clarify what I was trying to say in the beginning.

Thanks.

5

doesn't the example @xidiot posted do that? It seems to work ok here. It doesn't yet contain the remapping from ctrl+tab to cmd+tab, but that should work the same way

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6

Tested it in Chrome. There it works as intended.
But in Zen Browser it exihibts the behavior shown in the video clip.
Is there any way to troubleshoot this? Thanks.