Application Switching in OSX for the Windows Emigrant

Sunday, January 18th, 2009 @ 4:46 pm | filed under: Migrating from Windows |

In Windows we use alt-tab to switch between all open windows. OSX is a little different. Alt+Tab switches between open applications, while Alt+` (left apostrophe/tilde) is used to switch between windows within an application. This took me about a year to discover.

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2 Responses to “Application Switching in OSX for the Windows Emigrant”

  1. reybango Says:
    January 21st, 2009 at 8:19 am

    @Aaron: When I make the jump to OSX, I bought and installed Witch which eased the ALT-Tab situation considerably. http://www.manytricks.com/witch/

  2. admin Says:
    January 21st, 2009 at 10:52 am

    I installed it too, but for some reason I didn’t like it. I can’t recall now. Still, it’s a fine solution to get windows-like window switching.

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