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Window Switcher

Window-Switcher offers hotkeys for quickly switching windows on Windows OS:

  1. Alt+`(Backtick): switch between windows of the same app.

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  1. Alt+Tab: switch between apps. (disabled by default)

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Tips: Hold Alt and strike Backtick/Tab to cycle through, press Alt + Backtick/Tab to switch to the previous one.

Install

Download windows-switcher.zip from the Github Release, extract window-switcher.exe, run it.

window-switcher.exe is a portable single-file program (less than 500 KB in size). No installation is required.

Configuration

The window-switcher supports custom shortcuts, enabling and disabling certain functions, and all of these can be set through the configuration file.

The configuration file must be named window-switcher.ini and located in the same directory as window-switcher.exe for the changes to take effect.

Here is the default configuration:

# Whether to show trayicon, yes/no
trayicon = yes 

[switch-windows]

# Hotkey to switch windows
hotkey = alt+`

# List of hotkey conflict apps
# e.g. game1.exe,game2.exe
blacklist =

# Ignore minimal windows
ignore_minimal = no

[switch-apps]

# Whether to enable switching apps
enable = no 

# Hotkey to switch apps
hotkey = alt+tab

# Ignore minimal windows
ignore_minimal = no

License

Copyright (c) 2023-2024 window-switcher developers.

window-switcher is made available under the terms of the MIT License, at your option.

See the LICENSE files for license details.