Switch to last used window for Mac like it's done on PC

[AncientLust]

Hi Pawel, is there a hotkey combination on Mac for "Switch to last used window" like it's done on PC via ctrl+tab? This is a really load-bearing hotkey when you work with several tables.

Currently I don't have access to PC to check what is the name of the command used there. I went through the hotkeys in the settings in Letos for Mac, but cannot find it. Probably I miss something.

[pawelsalawa]

I don't have a mac arround me at the moment, but ChatGPT suggests, that on macs the hotkeys similar to ctrl+tab and ctrl+shift+tab are: ⌘⇧] and ⌘⇧[

[AncientLust]

Thanks for checking, but unfortunately it doesn't work either.

I will wait for my PC from service and check how the command for ctrl+tab is called in the PC version.

Then will post the update.

[AncientLust]

I've got the info:

Q1: What handles Ctrl+Tab?
A1: It's built-in QMdiArea::keyPressEvent, not application code.

Q2: Why it's "Open whatever window was the last one"-style?
A2: Qt's default QMdiArea activation order is ActivationHistoryOrder.

Q3. Why it's not in settings?
A3: Never registered in the app's shortcut system.

Q4. Why it doesn't work on Mac?
A4: Qt key mapping differences - physical Ctrl is Qt::META on Mac, and Cmd+Tab is intercepted
by macOS.

So in short - it's a default QT behavior, which just so happens to work on PC, but unfortunately not on Mac. Only because Mac system shortcut intercepts it for app switching.

This is really a load-berring shortcut. I'd say the only more used are cmd+C and cmd+V. Any chance you could add it to the the list of the shortcuts so Mac users could remap it? Or maybe default it to ctrl+tab on Mac so it would work out of the box.

[pawelsalawa]

I'll see if it's easy or not. If it's easy, it will get into the 4.0.2. If it's more complex, the 4.1 or 4.2 is more likely.

[pawelsalawa]

I've created #5766 to track it.

[AncientLust]

Much appreciated, thanks.