Alt+Tab from mintty: focus next non-mintty window

[mkq]

Hello,

I use Ctrl+Tab to switch between mintty tabs. Also, --tabbar=4 makes the minttys mostly feel like tabs of a single window. What's still missing for the single window-like workflow is:

When mintty is focused, Alt+Tab should focus the next window which is not part of the current Ctrl+Tab group (be it a mintty window with another --class or an unrelated window). Could you please make that possible? Maybe this should become option SessionGeomSync=5, but I tend to prefer a separate option.

[mkq]

If the different mintty "tabs" didn't even show up in Alt+Tab, it would be even better.

Maybe this could be done by hiding all but one with window style WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW. However, it seems that would also get rid of the separate taskbar buttons which I like.

[mintty]

Unlike Ctrl+TAB, Alt+TAB is handled directly by Windows, not mintty. So mintty cannot simply choose to do something different. A workaround may be very tricky.

[mkq]

Yes, I didn't actually mean to intercept Alt+Tab. But whenever a mintty window gets the focus (which it already notices, it seems, since there is an option Looks / Transparency / Opaque when focused), maybe it could put other windows in the same session at the end of the Alt+Tab order. (That seems to be possible, see Autohotkey Winset Bottom; don't know the Windows API counterpart.)

[mintty]

Thanks for the hint to WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW, it works indeed. I am trying to combine it with a fresh attempt to combine tabs and transparency.

[mintty]

Release 3.6.5.

[mkq]

Wow. this is great! Thanks!

I just recently tried again to fix an Autohotkey workaround. It mostly works with SessionGeomSync <= 2, but has issues when mintty is minimized. I am happy to see that mintty's built-in handling seems to work flawlessly. (And I can live without separate taskbar button. Having a clean Alt+Tab list is my main priority.)

Maybe you should also mention Alt+Tab in the release notes? I would not expect an Alt+Tab cleanup when reading just "Group taskbar icons".

[mintty]

Changed on the release page, but I don't think I'll send another announcement mail on the cygwin list.
Thanks for the feedback.