rxhanson
Four finger swipe App Switcher
Feature request for better App Switcher behavior with four finger swipes
One of the really neat things about being able to assign this to a four finger swipe is that (at least in BTT's implementation) you can:
- Swipe and release all fingers to switch immediately between the two most recent applications (equivalent to tapping ⌘+tab)
- Swipe and keep two fingers down to scroll between applications. Release two all fingers to 'select' the currently highlighted app. (equivalent to holding down ⌘ then tapping tab)
I haven't found a way to emulate this behaviour with Multitouch yet. (And in fact, I think it might be why BTT has a preference to use its own App switcher?)
FWIW, I think this behaviour was introduced in Snow Leopard as the default four finger gesture behaviour, then reverted in a later macOS version - and some people like me have been clinging onto it since!
Originally posted by @jaustin in https://github.com/rxhanson/Multitouch-Community/issues/40#issuecomment-1228405373
Thanks, @jaustin for the feedback.
Indeed Multitouch does not have an implementation that matches BTT's here, and it is related to how Multitouch only treats swipes as momentary with a release, rather than continuous with touches down. I'll add this to my lengthy backlog, and can't make any promises on a time frame for it (sorry!). The reason I made this a separate issue is to see if more people desire it.
If you're up for trying something a little different, I'll throw out a bit different suggestion shown in the screenshot below. No worries if it's not something you want, as it can take a little brain rewiring and going from 4 to 1 to 2 if you want to scroll through the apps.
As a further aside, I do have plans to make an alternate version (or additional feature) of Charmstone that is trackpad gesture based, but that is a little farther off as well.
glad to see this is still open ◡̈ , was really wanting this to replace btt since its such a big application that eats my battery
