The new Window Switcher is great!

The new window switcher brings significant improvements. Thanks, Andreas!

There are still a few bugs or feature requests on my end.

This option

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shows this

Basically, I don't think anyone who wants to keep this window open all the time would want it that big. “Small” on the screen wheel seems more likely to me.

And: Would it be possible to make the main window dynamic, so that its size automatically adjusts to the number of windows? Multiple lines would be handy. With the current layout, the windows are "cut off".

+1 for multiple rows!

I also love the new Window Switcher - especially in combination with the new "Mouse Hovers Doc App Icon" trigger. Thank you Andreas...this has potential to solve one of my main headaches with macOS. :heart_eyes:

Is there any way to make the width of the horizontal Window Switcher dynamical, based on the number of opened windows of the active app?

Currently it looks like that when I only have one window of the active app open:

6.780 comes with various improvements:

You can now specify the number of rows before scrolling:

If less windows are available than would fit the width, the width automatically reduces, this makes nice dock preview possible:

Okay, that's definitely not bad.

I wonder, though, why scrolling is necessary at all. Wouldn't it be more practical if the Window Switcher window simply adjusted to fit the number of windows?

If three windows can be displayed in a row, then that’s what happens. And if multiple rows are needed, they’re added, you can see all the windows, without having to scroll. That’s how it works with AltTab.

And: I can’t seem to center the window. The switcher appears at the bottom of the screen. This option doesn’t work as expected.

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personally I often have a LOT of windows open but I usually only need access to the last ~10. I don't want to see all the others all the time but am happy to scroll to them when necessary. Especially when using this toghether with the "Show Preview Of Actual Window" option which I kind of like.
If you don't care about that you can set the number of rows to a high number.

Weird, the centering works fine on my test systems. I really need to set up a VM for macOS 13 :see_no_evil_monkey:

I see. I can live with that.

Centering (or something like that) works if I first move the mouse to where I want the switcher to be. This workaround is fine with me.

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Maybe it really is because of Ventura :slight_smile:

Could you export a trigger (e.g. keyboard shortcut) with the action configured that should show centered but does not?

6.785 adds an option to not show the popover with the resizing actions but instead directly overlay them on the thumbnail:

I'm not exactly sure what that means :thinking:

Anyway, it works now. The switcher still opens in the wrong place (not centered), but the window is moved and centered right after it opens. Is that supposed to happen?

Edit: Unfortunately, it doesn't work reliably. Sometimes the window is centered, and sometimes it isn't.

very slick. thanks for the wonderful work.

one things: is it possible to default to next window instead of current, in this way I can switch back and forth quickly by pressing cmd-tab once.

You need to use the drop-down at the bottom of the Window Switcher action called "Selected Item".

I see. Thank you.

Hi Andreas,
with BTT 6.788 the popover is for the left item on the left, for all others on top (see screenshots).

Can we make it that all of them are on top?

@Andreas_Hegenberg No matter what value I enter here

Unfortunately I always get the same result

Is this a bug or Ventura? Or both?

can you explain what is the issue or what you would like to achieve?

I would like to see all open windows, just like in your screenshot :slight_smile:

Maybe you can see it better here. Not all of the open windows appear in the window switcher.

ah I see, that is unfortunate :sweat_smile:
Definitely a macOS 13 issue, but good news - tomorrow I'll be back in office with my Ventura machine, then I'll check!

@Frank1 possibly check whether 6.806 helps already, I tried to replace some more modern sizing functions with older ones.

Thanks, Andreas, but unfortunately not much has changed. With v6.808 and this setting

I see this:

If I change it from 4,000 to 1,000, it looks like this.

Unfortunately my macOS 13 machine apparently has a broken hard drive :joy:

I was able to test on macOS 14 but it is working fine there.

I'll set up a vm soonish.