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by waz0wski 2632 days ago
If you'd like to do away with touchpad gestures for an even faster workflow on osx, try using https://contexts.co for your switcher, and https://www.alfredapp.com for your launcher

contexts gives additional 'switching' options on different hotkeys, window searching+selection, and no mouse interaction required (but it is supported)

I have Contexts setup as follows:

    cmd-tab: cycle thru all visible windows of all apps on this desktop

    opt-tab: cycle thru all apps on all desktops


    cmd-~: cycle thru all windows of focused app on this desktop (include hidden/minimized)

    opt-~: cycle all windows of focused app on all desktops (include hidden/minimized)


    cmd-space: activate Alfred

    opt-space: search/activate of all running apps on all desktops
This workflow allows for complete, keyboard-driven navigation/switching, and total deprecation of the slow 10.7+ mission control gui (you can restore the older & faster exposè style window view with the app TotalSpaces)
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I am going to check this out, it looks interesting. I haven't really experienced inefficiencies with the speed of mission control, but I'm open to better ways of interacting with the workspaces and applications.