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[alt-tab-macos-bot]

This issue was opened by a bot after a user submitted feedback through the in-app form.

From: [email protected]

Message:

Not sure what's wrong, but I can't get "showTabsAsWindows" to work.

My desired behavior is for "option+tab" to show a list of most recently viewed "tabs", and cycle through them by hitting "tab". In this context, a single Chrome window might have 5 tabs, so I would like all 5 chrome tabs to show up in the AltTab carousel.

Regardless of how I interact with the showTabsAsWindows checkbox, "Chrome" will only show up once in the AltTab carousel. I took a (very) brief look at https://github.com/lwouis/alt-tab-macos/blob/d2d501678046e6a5028393325f3a4509b11b916a/src/logic/Windows.swift and glanced through #258, and nothing looks super amiss?

I've tried toggling the checkbox but nothing really seems to happen. Everything else is default.

Debug profile

• App version: 6.51.0
• App preferences:
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  • MSAppCenter310CrashesUserDefaultsMigratedKey: 1
  • MSAppCenterInstallId: 0B00CE53-98A1-47FE-B35B-30D9D47EEC30
  • MSAppCenterNetworkRequestsAllowed: 0
  • MSAppCenterPastDevices: {length = 1157, bytes = 0x62706c69 73743030 d4010203 04050607 ... 00000000 00000391 }
  • MSAppCenterSessionIdHistory: {length = 460, bytes = 0x62706c69 73743030 d4010203 04050607 ... 00000000 00000156 }
  • MSAppCenterUserIdHistory: {length = 455, bytes = 0x62706c69 73743030 d4010203 04050607 ... 00000000 00000151 }
  • SUHasLaunchedBefore: 1
  • SULastCheckTime: 2022-12-28 20:11:51 +0000
  • appsToShow: 0
  • menubarIcon: 2
  • preferencesVersion: 6.51.0
  • screensToShow: 0
  • showOnScreen: 0
  • showTabsAsWindows: true
  • spacesToShow: 0
  • theme: 0
  • updatePolicy: 1
  • windowMaxWidthInRow: 30
• Applications: 50
• Windows: 13
  • {isFullscreen: false, isWindowlessApp: false, isMinimized: false, isHidden: false, isTabbed: false, isOnAllSpaces: false, shouldShowTheUser: true, spaceId: 1, spaceIndex: 1}
  • {isFullscreen: false, isWindowlessApp: false, isMinimized: false, isHidden: false, isTabbed: false, isOnAllSpaces: false, shouldShowTheUser: true, spaceId: 1, spaceIndex: 1}
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  • {isFullscreen: false, isWindowlessApp: false, isMinimized: false, isHidden: false, isTabbed: false, isOnAllSpaces: false, shouldShowTheUser: true, spaceId: 1, spaceIndex: 1}
  • {isFullscreen: false, isWindowlessApp: false, isMinimized: false, isHidden: false, isTabbed: false, isOnAllSpaces: false, shouldShowTheUser: true, spaceId: 1, spaceIndex: 1}
  • {isFullscreen: false, isWindowlessApp: false, isMinimized: false, isHidden: false, isTabbed: false, isOnAllSpaces: false, shouldShowTheUser: true, spaceId: 1, spaceIndex: 1}
  • {isFullscreen: false, isWindowlessApp: false, isMinimized: false, isHidden: false, isTabbed: false, isOnAllSpaces: false, shouldShowTheUser: true, spaceId: 1, spaceIndex: 1}
  • {isFullscreen: false, isWindowlessApp: false, isMinimized: false, isHidden: false, isTabbed: false, isOnAllSpaces: false, shouldShowTheUser: true, spaceId: 1, spaceIndex: 1}
  • {isFullscreen: false, isWindowlessApp: false, isMinimized: false, isHidden: false, isTabbed: false, isOnAllSpaces: false, shouldShowTheUser: true, spaceId: 1, spaceIndex: 1}
  • {isFullscreen: false, isWindowlessApp: false, isMinimized: false, isHidden: false, isTabbed: false, isOnAllSpaces: false, shouldShowTheUser: true, spaceId: 1, spaceIndex: 1}
• OS version: Version 13.1 (Build 22C65)
• OS architecture: arm64
• Locale: en_US (current)
• Spaces: 1
• Dark mode: Dark
• "Displays have separate Spaces": checked
• Hardware model: MacBookPro18,3
• Screens: 1
  • {x: 0.0, y: 0.0, width: 1800.0, height: 1169.0}
• CPU model: Apple M1 Pro
• Memory size: 17.18 GB
• Active CPU count: 8
• Current CPU frequency: nil
• Resource utilization:
  • CPU: 0.2%
  • Memory: 77M+
  • Threads count: 10

[blhguo]

Hi, I created this ticket.

The video in this issue is exactly what I would like my behavior to be: #2136

[lwouis]

Hi @blhguo,

Please see #1888 (comment) for an explanation of why Chrome tabs can't be separated.

[blhguo]

Hey!

Thanks for the quick response. Sad to hear though, do you know of any other AltTab-type tool that does accomplish what I'm looking for? 1888 makes it seem like it's not actually technically doable

Might also be good to add this to an FAQ or a doc somewhere!