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Keyboard shortcut for switching between windows of the same program

See original GitHub issue

Windows currently does not have a shortcut for switching between windows of the same program/app. On Mac it is <kbd>CMD</kbd> + <kbd>`</kbd>. I think it should be supported on Windows out of the box, but maybe adding it in PowerToys would be faster?

Right now the alternative is to install a third-party tool called Easy Window Switcher.

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Created 4 years ago
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Comments:17 (6 by maintainers)

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akivercommented, Oct 5, 2021

Hello!

Easy Window Switcher didn’t work well for me so I made an open-source alternative called AltBacktick. If a PowerToys maintainer wants to use the code and add it to PowerToys, please feel free.

I think that switching between the same program windows with a keyboard should be supported by the OS, if PowerToys can add this missing Windows feature that would be great.

Thank you!

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omidkradcommented, Nov 16, 2020

@crutkas Typically the shortcut for switching between tabs (in a tab based app) is CTRL+TAB and the shortcut for switching between applications is ALT+TAB. For some reason in Edge each tab is treated like a separate app so in Edge, ALT+TAB may go to the next tab or next app, but in Chrome it always jumps to the next window.

In Linux and Mac there is also a shortcut for switching between apps of the same type. In Linux it is ALT+` and in Mac it is CMD+`. So here we’re proposing to have a compatible keyboard shortcut in Windows, that could be ALT+` as well. For example when focus is on Notepad, pressing ALT+` should rotate between instances of Notepad only.