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Another method is to ⌘-tab to the minimized app, and while still pressing ⌘, hold down the Option key and release ⌘.

Not very elegant and it won't work if the app has a mix of minimized and non-minimized windows, but I usually don't have a mix. If that's the case, you can still use notyourwork's method above.

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I liked how some WMs handle windows of same application. I can Alt-Tab to a window of an app, and then — without releasing the Alt key — Alt-` to a different window of the same app.

On Kwin, for example, going from Alt-Tab to Alt-` smoothly filters out all the non-same-app windows.

Alt-Tab => Alt-` is also much easier than ⌘-tab => ⌘-Option => Option

I'd think OS X's WM would have ⌘-tab => ⌘-`

OS X does have ⌘-` to switch between (unminimized) windows of a given app.

Yeah, in my case I have a mix of open and minimized windows in a given app (Preview, iTerm, Emacs...), hence the issue.

MacOS is not keyboard-only-friendly. It took me a year before someone pointed out the option to let "Tab" cycle through ALL controls in a dialog >_< (FYI: System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts, then at the bottom, the "Full Keyboard Access" radio buttons)

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