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
CMD + TAB shows the windows of all Applications and with every TAB while holding the CMD you change the selected window.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
let me share how I've "solved" the issue. At least it is working now, not as originally intended, but reliable.
You now need to let the left mouse button go, to get AltTab activated. Unfortunately without waiting for the release of the left mouse button the behavior was random (sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't work).
So, similar to the native BTT window switcher, but shows all previews. Any way to get this to behave more like AltTab, I wonder, but no matter given you've pretty much solved this Volker!
yah its even better.....you prob have read some of my other contributions on here and dockalt-tab or alt tab....In addition to moving back and forth to tabs, I also implemented swipes up and down for hide app and minimize, Also have one for hide all apps, 2 fingers from top. I do all these with advanced conditions making sure Alttab window is hovered. I use 2 tip-tap to go back and forth to tabs. Check out DockAltTab it gives you window previews on the dock and it is implemented with AltTab. It would be 100% implemented but developer of AltTab refues to add a few lines of applescript so there has to be a fork maintained just for the couple lines of appscript, everything else is 100% the same. I have same scripts on window previews too, Couldnt operate MacOS without AltTab and DockAltTab. Check out DockAltTab here at https://dockalttab.netlify.app/ or it github GitHub - steventheworker/DockAltTab: Window preview app for MacOS (on the dock) using AltTab.
to behave more like AltTab, I wonder, but no matter given you've pretty much solved this Volker!