Man I really mis application menus being at the top of windows and being able to layer different windows from different applications in any order that I wish. VNC screen connections just make it into an even worse jumble.
It’s fast, great quick search abilities, including `fn + [key]` to quick switch (acronym), etc.
And it doesn't constantly get updates, it just does its thing and does it well.
If I quit contexts bug goes away for some time, but it returns after a while :(
Sent an email to the creator, but given the update cadence I am not holding my breath for a fix this decade.
I think it happened when not rebooting my Macbook for a long time and only with fullscreen windows, and i’d simply restart Contexts. But yea it was annoying indeed. Note that it might also be one of the many Apple macOS (api) bugs…
If it annoys you enough see if rcmd works for you. It’s the next best alternative Ive found so far. The Dev is great too I use a bunch of his other apps (Lunar and Clop).
This is not exactly what you are looking for but I personally like it more this way. So for example, I can switch between editor and browser via cmd tab but then I can cycle through browser windows via alt tab. These are two separate actions and it prevents me from having to cycle too much (compared to a solution that cycles through all windows of all applications)
Also helps to build temporal and spatial muscle memory. The first browser window is the main one, the next one was the one before that and so on
Having >1 app at once only appeared with Multifinder, which appeared in System 5.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MultiFinder
So that came along in 1987 alongside Macs with 1MB RAM. It built upon Switcher, which appeared with the 512kB Mac in 1985.
The reason all OSes now have file open/save dialog boxes is that the original Mac didn't have enough RAM to show a finder window alongside an app, so apps had to provide their own.
The Mac OS has always been an app-first experience (leading users to tend to talk about the name of the app they are using) where Windows has always been a document-first experience (leading users to talk about the file type of the document they are opening). Apps and Documents are obviously both important, so this is a big of a ying and yang thing where it's clearly two sides of the same coin, and yet they lead to a bias to talking about, for example, keynote, which is an app, and to talking about PowerPoint decks, which are documents (again, a bias, not a totality).
> I was referring to Switcher, from 1985
Ah, OK. You didn't _say_ that, though.
> which I believe ran on 128k Mac's.
I don't think so, no.
The story of its development is here:
https://www.folklore.org/Switcher.html
It mentions needing the RAM, but not what system version. MultiFinder came in with System 5:
https://www.folklore.org/Switcher.html
... so, before that.
I would guess System 2, which was contemporaneous, but I don't know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Mac_OS#Release_history
> I was referring to Switcher because it set the user experience patterns and expectations for how app switching should work that led to multifinder and OSX per-app switching patterns.
Huh. OK. I had never considered that before.
To me, this makes windows feel like a maze and macos feel natural.
There is still no reason why you cannot have both CMD-Tab switching between any window and also an option to switch between windows from the same app?
But when you tab into an application, all of its windows are brought to the front.
If you want to bring one specific window to the front you are supposed to use Exposé, but some power users don’t like this because it uses the mouse instead of the keyboard.