Sommer PanageSo TIL that you can highlight an icon in the App Switcher and tap Q to quit the app without ever foregrounding it… 🤦🏻♀️🤯
Steve Ledsworth@sommer mind blown! 🤯
Jordan@sommer H too, to hide it!
Jeff C. 🇺🇦🇬🇱@sommer Yep. This is a great way to kill off a bunch of apps in just a few key presses.
You can also shift-tab to go in reverse.
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Cody Krieger@sommer i use this all the time! 👌
Rodrigo Escobar@sommer You can also press H to hide the app
mikeash@sommer You can also start dragging a file, then cmd-tab to bring up the switcher during the drag, and drop the file into an app in the switcher. Great for those “I just used this app but I can’t find it in the Dock” situations.
Brian Lewis
fab1An@mikeash I think, I knew this some time in the past, but forgot, because like many other shortcuts, it is at least sub-optimal for left-handed users, so it just doesn't stick.
@fab1An Oh yeah, that’s no good. You need a spare tab key on the right side of the keyboard.
@mikeash As an avid user of @KeyboardMaestro I could create something like that, but I’m afraid that after this many years of command-tabbing with my left hand, I would not be able to get used to a new shortcut. Also, I would have a hard time finding a key that's not already used in some other shortcut. 😅
@fab1An @KeyboardMaestro I took a minute looking at my keyboard before I replied, looking for a suggestion that would even work as a joke, but I got nothing.
Keyboard Maestro@fab1An @mikeash it's amusing seeing all these folks get excited about an Apple feature I've had for a decade. You can also quit (or even force quit) and relaunch the application with a couple keystrokes. BTW, my keys are configurable, so for left handed people, you could change the `q` to something else.
@sommer That's really great - Thanks!
Took me a minute to remember that the App Switcher is the thing you get on macOS with ⌘-Tab. For a while I thought you were talking that other thing - digs around on the web - oh yeah called Stage Manager.
I've always just repeatedly hit ⌘-Tab to get to the next app - but I see that the sideways arrow keys work AND up/down arrows shows just that app's active windows!
Glenn Fleishman@sommer I have been writing professionally, for cash money, about the Macintosh for decades and…just learned this. THANK YOU.
🇨🇦 Steve@glennf @sommer I think it only really became useful around 10.7 when Apple added the automatic termination system (which lets an app indicate it can be quit by being terminated instead of through the usual path, i.e. nothing needs to be confirmed or saved). The extra speed on average made it incredibly useful.
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Ben Cohen@sommer also you can start dragging a file, cmd-tab, and drop onto the icons
James Dempsey@airspeedswift @sommer TIL *two* things, putting me well over my “you learn something new every day” quota.
Tom Harrington
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@sommer I'd rather have a close button instead of hidden shortcuts, but nice to know. Thank you!