The Mac user interface has a major design flaw, and that is alt tabbing to open windows. Instead of alt tabbing to an open window, it will bring up *all* the open windows for that application completely throwing you off and popping up these windows over everything and into your face on whatever else you are working on.
When you’re used to working on a Linux or Windows PC, this will be the very first things that drives you nuts and affects productivity.
There are some folk who have created some workarounds. So far I found two, AltTab and Amethyst. It’s sad that folk have to write plugins to get something so fundamental right on a Mac. Both application seems a bit over engineered, and as of Mac OS 15 there are new problems with pop ups.
To document my sad journey of trying to overcome this problem, I am show you instructions on how to disable popups, which unfortunately, doesn’t work.
Download file from here:
- https://github.com/lwouis/alt-tab-macos/issues/2606
- https://github.com/luckman212/screencapture-nag-remover?tab=readme-ov-file
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine screencapture-nag-remover.sh\ chmod a+x screencapture-nag-remover.sh
The next line seemed useless:
sudo cp screencapture-nag-remover.sh /usr/local/bin
Either way, let’s run it from there:
/usr/local/bin/screencapture-nag-remover.sh -a "/Applications/AltTab.app/Contents/MacOS/AltTab" Full Disk Access permissions are missing for iTerm.app /usr/local/bin/screencapture-nag-remover.sh -a "/Applications/AltTab.app/Contents/MacOS/AltTab" disabling nag for /Applications/AltTab.app/Contents/MacOS/AltTab
Nope, this nagging. What a drag.
Another day, more wasted hour to get a Mac to do basic things. My suggestion? Use Linux. Linux Mint if you can.
Links
- https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst
- https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/16tqfg0/alttab_is_captuting_your_screen/