Witch displays a vertical list, and I think I prefer it – it can be better when there are many windows, and it gives longer display of window titles 2. Options for different styles of appearance on the list, especially an optional vertical screen. This could easily be a v1.0 finished product already. On top of that, it’s fast, looks pretty good, and I have not found any of the expected beta errors. When I first installed HyperSwitch, I had three such preference windows hidden under several other windows that I did not anticipate were still open. HyperSwitch shows * all * my open windows, which means I no longer lose them behind other windows and can easily switch back and forth. They also do not point to uBar, a Dock replacement I use, so I realized that it might just be a system limitation. Well, HyperSwitch solves it right away! Not only that, HyperSwitch shows me windows that I’ve been missing from Witch for years! I always found it annoying that I could not see certain types of windows in the Witch switch, usually preference panes. I contacted Witch about this, and they told me that it was an inevitable solution to a system problem that ‘maybe’ was solved in Witch 4. Lately, Witch has suffered from an annoying problem with OSX’s new (ish) “Desktop as Spaces” feature, where the Witch UI disappears very slowly when you switch to a window that is on a different screen (and therefore at a different space). I have been using Witch for years, which I always thought was very good, but this is immediately better in several ways. Wow! This is amazing, and almost perfect already.
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