Operate AltTab from BTT

Configuration Help & General Discussion
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Hi,
thank you for the amazing work. I really love BTT and it helped my a lot to setup my personal flavor in MacOS. I really appreciate.

There is one UseCase that really blows my mind. I've already invested hours of work to determine how to implemet the UseCase with BTT. Now I am here and hoping for some hints.

I want to use the two functionalities from AltTab with a mouse shortcut

  1. CMD + TAB shows the windows of all Applications and with every TAB while holding the CMD you change the selected window.
  2. OPTION + TAB shows the windows of the active application and with every TAB while holding OPTION you change the selected window.

I want to trigger these actions out of BTT with my normal mouse.

  1. holding Left Mouse Button (LMB) and pushing Mouse Button 3 (MB3) shows the windows of all applications and with every MB3 while holding LMB you change the selected window.
  2. holding Right Mouse Button (RMB) and pushing MB3 shows the windows of the active application and with every MB3 while holding RMB you change the selected window.

Any hints how to achive this with BTT? The first UseCase can somehow be achieved by using the "Application Switcher" but I haven't make it running really reliable. It has some hick-ups.

I really appreciate your help or even a link to a documentation about similar UseCases.

Thank you very much and have a great 1st May.

Best,
Volker

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Hi Folks,
I've made some progress, that I wanted to share with you :slight_smile:

Based on this discussion in the AltTab forum I set the settings in AltTab as followed:

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Afterwards I set up BTT as followed:

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So what is possible now:
(LMB = Left Mouse Button, MB3 = Mouse Button 3)

  • Click MB3 while LMB is down opens the AltTab AppSwitcher
  • MouseWheel allows to scroll through the AppSwitcher (while AltTab AppSwitcher is opened)
  • Middle Mouse button selects the focused window (while AltTab AppSwitcher is opened)
  • In some Apps this is working quite good :slight_smile:

What still confuses me:

  • In some apps things don't work as intended
  • e.g. In Chrome I cannot open the AltTab AppSwitcher by clicking MB3 while LMB is down
  • e.g. In Firefox I can open the AltTab AppSwitcher, but scrolling through the AppSwitcher by MouseWheel does not work. The scrolling is interpreted by Firefox instead.

Any hints on this one?

Thank you & best wishes,
Volker