Comments on: QotD: Switch Apps

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 06 Feb 2005 22:46:09 +0000

I'm all about cmd-tab! I've abandoned the dock for DragThing recently, and am training myself not to drop apps to the dock so I don't have to go there at all.

By: Erik

Erik — Sun, 06 Feb 2005 04:15:00 +0000

The switching I use varies depending on .... well, I don't know, it just does. For app switching, I mostly use Command-Tab or Shift-Command-Tab, a habit that sticks mostly b/c at work I have to use Windows and the same command works there. But sometimes I do use Expose, since it's mapped to a button on my mouse. And once in a blue moon, no idea why, but I end up switching to another running app using QuickSilver (Ctrl-Space).

For switching windows within an application -- if I have my hands on the keyboard, I always use the keyboard shortcut, Command-` or Command-~ to cycle through them. But if I have my hand on the mouse, the application-level Expose is becoming a reflex that I'm starting to miss at work -- it's much more useful than the all-applications-level Expose IMHO because there are fewer windows to choose from. Within an application.

For launching applications, I exclusively use QuickSilver.

By: Fred

Fred — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 04:22:17 +0000

Dual-monitor G4 Tower: I usually click on a window, followed by clicking on A-Dock (a dock supplement), followed by Cmd-Tab.

12" iBook nearly always A-Dock.

I don't use Expose at all (and I hate when it ambushes me after a miskey). I used to use Launch Bar but never liked it enough to register, and gave up on QuickSilver really quickly after it would max out both dual processors for about 40 minutes after each reboot *blech*.

By: Tim Buchheim

Tim Buchheim — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 03:45:58 +0000

I think I'm split about 50/50 between the Dock and command-tab. I generally only use ExposÃ© if I have a lot of windows open in one app (which is not that common for me)

Actually, most of the time I have my windows arranged so they don't overlap much anyway (I have both a 20" and 17" LCD on my primary machine) so usually I just click in the window I want.

By: jeff

jeff — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 01:14:56 +0000

i'm using Expose more and more these days... but i have a hard time remembering which function key does which. :\

Next is visible windows and the dock, then command tab. (i mostly just use command tab when i want to kill a bunch of apps quickly.)

By: Vinay Venkatesh

Vinay Venkatesh — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 00:37:30 +0000

It's all about the LaunchBar. It reduces the things I have to keep in my head about how to do things.

Now Back to work!

By: Jason M

Jason M — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 22:10:45 +0000

CMD Tab if I have less than 5-7 things open, but Expose for when I have huge numbers of windows open. But quicksilver is the only way I launch my apps.

By: amarre

amarre — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 21:05:18 +0000

- Quicksilver, nothing else is needed

By: Bud Landry

Bud Landry — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 18:28:26 +0000

I use Command Tab more often than Expose, keeping Command pressed down as my finger switches between tab and Q. I'm not sure what Launch Bar offers that Command Tab doesn't cover, for my needs anyway.

By: Carlos Rivera

Carlos Rivera — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 18:25:37 +0000

In my 12 inch powerbook I constantly use cmd-tab, but in my desktop for some reason I keep using the mouse