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jimradford
Alt+Tab stays in SuperPuTTY (extra Tab required)
Describe the bug On Windows, when several windows are opened, pressing the Tab key while holding the Alt key should change the window at the foreground (the one with focus) to the last used window. But unlike all other applications, simply pressing Alt+Tab does not give focus to the right window when SuperPuTTY has focus.
To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:
- Have exactly 1 SuperPuTTY window opened
- Ensure that at least one more window is opened
- Give focus to SuperPuTTY
- Hold the Alt key
- Press the Tab key
- Release the Alt key
Expected behavior A window other than SuperPuTTY should get in the foreground and get focus.
Desktop (please complete the following information):
- OS: Windows 10
- Version 1.4.0.9
Additional context "Alt+Tab" can include several presses of the Tab key. Technically, this bug causes an extra press to be required. What would require Alt + Tab*n requires Alt + Tab*(n+1), and the combination when n is 1 does not change the displayed window.
This was previously tracked in ticket #216 This bug is apparently due to SuperPuTTY's hybrid nature (PuTTY + SuperPuTTY), and would be non-trivial to solve.
Can confirm this happens to me too (also Windows 10 Pro).
I also came here after seeing the 5+ year old issue at https://github.com/jimradford/superputty/issues/216 is closed
Most likely has to do with the fact that SuperPuTTY just launches PuTTY and then sets the SuperPuTTY window as the parent of the PuTTY window.
Lifehack, use Win+Tab in Windows 10. Saw such behaviour in old versions of Putty. You can test different.
I've just seen an even more annoying key bug, still in 1.4.0.9. Alt+Tab would consistently switch PuTTY tab rather than window. This must be rare, I don't remember seeing that yet.
It also solved quickly; I didn't even have to restart SuperPuTTY. It was solved a couple minutes later, after a few windows switches using the mouse.