Is there a way to have the currently selected window shown as active when using Task Switcher without releasing the Alt key (or Meta in my setup)?
I do not use the Show selected window option, as this hides all windows besides the currently selected one, and I do not want windows to be hidden while selecting a new active window.
so you don’t want to change the view of what is showing on desktop, but you DO want to change the focus?
this would force the stacking order to bring focused window to the front, yes?
Yes, and yes, and it all (almost) makes sense when I add that I’m using the tiling script Kröhnkite. When all windows are tiled, the only thing that would change is the look of the currently selected window.
However, if some of the windows are minimized, selecting them would indeed bring them to the front and force all currently visible windows plus the new one to be laid out again, which is unfortunate.
Thinking about this now I could use the Minimization option and filter out all hidden windows.
you could just switch by application instead of window.
but that won’t solve your original request.
moving this to brainstorm since it would require a new feature request.
Actually, Kröhnkite does provide its own shortcuts Focus Next and Focus Previous, which do exactly this, albeit only for the current screen.
Still, I think the option to choose the active window by simply making each one active in turn could be built in. So instead of the current checkbox Show selected window, there could be a dropdown How to present selected window. The default option could be Hide all other windows, which is the current behaviour, and the new option could be Activate a window with the behaviour requested here.
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sounds like a winner.