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Minimized Windows

Open steventheworker opened this issue 3 years ago • 7 comments

Default MacOS behavior is to open the app on single mouse click if only one window of that app exists. With DockAltTab, this requires either: hover & select window or click dock icon or double click dock icon

steventheworker avatar Nov 29 '22 23:11 steventheworker

I am glad this issue was brought up. I was about to create one myself. I noticed the click to minimise/maximise behaviour doesn't work sometimes. For e.g. a maximised windows, it would sometimes requires two clicks to minimise it. Also, there is a delay when clicking on minimised window to maximise.

sdburrows avatar Dec 02 '22 07:12 sdburrows

In your example do you mean Full Screen or Maximized via an app like Rectangle? And by "delay when clicking on minimized window" do you mean the AltTab preview button to full screen?

steventheworker avatar Dec 03 '22 04:12 steventheworker

I should be clearer with my explanations. When enabling the option "Modifying click behaviour" within DockAltTab, I expected the dock to behave like Windows taskbar. Instead, the behaviour is a bit erratic. The steps I used to reproduce this is:

  1. Open an app / window
  2. Minimise it using the yellow "-" button
  3. Click on dock app icon to restore it (not the preview window), nothing happens
  4. Click again and the window will open and hide again

The expected behaviour in Step 3 is the window should reappear.

I wonder, rather than click dock icon to hide, how about click to minimise, same behaviour as the "-" yellow symbol on the top left window. Would this solve the issue?

The delay is possibly related to hiding window than minimise window.

sdburrows avatar Dec 03 '22 05:12 sdburrows

Yes this sounds like a combination of a different issue (minimized window restoration) + issue 11 (trackpad tap clicks).

There is a delay of ~0.333sec when clicking an active app to hide it.

EDIT: yes your theory is correct, and minimizing > hiding would solve this, but only if ALL windows were minimized on click / I have DockAltTab not react to clicks on dock icons with >1 previews.

steventheworker avatar Dec 03 '22 06:12 steventheworker

EDIT: yes your theory is correct, and minimizing > hiding would solve this, but only if ALL windows were minimized on click / I have DockAltTab not react to clicks on dock icons with >1 previews.

Does this mean you will look into replacing the action from click to hide to click to minimise instead?

Also, why would you disable DockAltTab from reacting to clicks on dock icons when there is more than 1 preview window?

Moolynx avatar Dec 07 '22 10:12 Moolynx

Also, why would you disable DockAltTab from reacting to clicks on dock icons when there is more than 1 preview window?

I think that was done so it doesnt auto select the app, what it the default macos behavior when click the icon. When you have >2+ previews you can now select which preview otherwise you wouldn't be able to have that option. BTW he is talking about icon not the previews.

shredthaGNAR avatar May 07 '23 05:05 shredthaGNAR

This is fixed in v2.91.0 ... I think! Gonna keep this issue open for a while longer just in case you guys have any input.

steventheworker avatar Dec 05 '23 08:12 steventheworker