rbreaves
Expected Command-Tab Behavior using Mac Keyboard on Windows
Hi, thanks for this incredible project.
I tried searching around, but just want to confirm how Command-Tab is supposed to work when using a Mac keyboard with Windows + Kinto.
Expected behavior: Activate app switcher (Natively invoked via Alt-Tab on Windows.)
Observed behavior: Switch windows within foreground app (Natively invoked via Alt-` on Windows, I believe.)
Is the observed behavior intentional, or is there an issue with my setup? I'm fighting Mac muscle memory expecting Command-Tab to invoke the app switcher.
Thank you.
It should invoke the normal Windows Atl-Tab when you press Cmd-Tab. I know some users may expect or want an exact replica of the macOS app switcher but really I’m just lining up similar functionality.
If it’s not invoking Alt-Tab though when you hit the Cmd-Tab location then that’s a new one for me as I’m not aware of there being an issue w/ that. If you post you kinto.ahk file though I’ll try it out & see what’s going on.
Hi again and thanks for the response.
I ran into this with an unmodified kinto.ahk file, but I neglected to include an important detail that turned out (obviously in hindsight) to be pretty critical: I'm using the Mac keyboard on Windows through Synergy from a Mac host.
After poking around a bit, it looked like GetKeyState was always returning false regardless of the physical state of the modifier keys. So the Alt-Tab code path was never reached, and the default Windows Control-Tab behavior prevailed.
I'm not sure what unholy things Synergy might be doing behind the scenes to cause this, but I found a work-around, and ended up replacing the calls to GetKeyState in kinto.ahk with DllCall("GetAsyncKeyState"....
Works correctly and seems like a fix... but it's an ugly one.
If you think this edge case pops up enough to warrant more effort I can try to clean it up and submit a PR, but seems pretty fringe as there's only one other Synergy-related issue in the archives.
Thanks again for a great project.
Thanks, and yea I was about to mention that other synergy thread you found. I am glad you found something that worked though and later I will try to find some time to dig into this more. I used to use Synergy and would like to get that working for everyone out of the box - if they so choose to use it.
The Alt-Tab behavior is always the most difficult thing to get working on any platform it seems and has led to more rewrites & refactors of Kinto than any other thing I have encountered thus far.
@kitschpatrol Hi I've just run into the same issue as you. Do you have a copy of the kinto.ahk file you could share? Thanks Isaac
Hi @isaac84, sure I uploaded it to a gist for you: https://gist.github.com/kitschpatrol/c39daf032a11d62a49cd3b20bd21a54c#file-kinto-ahk-L191-L243
Just note that this is a couple years old and likely out of sync with the latest official kinto ahk file.
@kitschpatrol thanks for that I will merge your changes into the latest kinto.ahk I have locally.