Menubar Window Switcher

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A simple window switcher for the menubar, requires BTT 4.920 alpha

  • always shows the active app name and icon in the menubar
  • clicking shows BTT's window switcher

menubar_appswitcher.bttpreset (33.5 KB)

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wow, this is so helpful! thank you!

I think there was an issue in either BTT or recent macOS that prevented this from working properly. Should be fixed in 5.172

Is there a way to make the switcher go away when clicking outside of it?

I love the way it cycles through the windows when clicking on the menu icon. Is there a way to make it switch to the selected window if I right click instead?

That can be done:

Problem with "clicking outside" is currently hard because the menubar icon is also outside of the window switcher. It might be possible using a "focused window changed" trigger - I'll check later

//edit, actually it already seems to close when clicking outside / changing focus

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Ha, it actually worked, even though technically I'm not hovering over the item. Maybe change the text to "Selected" instead of "Hovered".

I always miss that little dropdown, the font size is so small. Same with the "Actions Executed..." for the trackpad. There's no key press/release dropdown for the keyboard shortcuts btw?

It doesn't go away for me when I click outside of it. I have a keyboard shortcut for the window switcher. When using that one, it does go away when clicking outside of it.

Update: It goes away if I click outside of it, EXCEPT if I click on the BTT configuration window.

it seems to close on application switch (and because BTT stays active in that case it doesn't). I'll check whether I can change that.

For keyboard shortcuts I haven't gotten around to adapt to the "new" action categories because there the key up/down stuff is deeply baked in and spans across code from now to the very beginning of BTT.

Maybe at some point I'll go through it and adapt there as well, but that is not very high on my priority list right now :slight_smile:

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FYI, related:

  1. The menu bar icon doesn't change when switching to the BTT window, it stays with whatever app was active before that. I.e. it never says "BetterTouchTool".
  2. If clicking on the BTT window when the switcher is active, it stays active even if you switch to other applications, and the only way to get rid of it is to click it and then hit escape / chose something / click on another app.