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[Simple Window Switcher] Bug Fixes and Minor Feature Additions#4776

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Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where the alt-tab interface flashed at the top-left of the screen on launch for single-monitor setups by utilizing absolute negative off-screen coordinates
  • Fixed an issue where child popup windows or dialogs overshadowed their root parent windows in the switcher by correctly prioritizing GW_OWNER
  • Fixed the "Scroll Pages" layout engine wrapping issue to ensure strictly computed page boundaries and alignments without incorrectly pulling from the start of the list
  • Fixed the layout and spacing of overflow indicators so they no longer stick flush against the absolute screen edges
  • Fixed corner scaling to properly support custom, rounded, or default corner preferences in the switcher background (Credits to @bropines)
  • Fixed mirror switcher cleanup to prevent resource leaks and overlap bugs on multi-monitor setups (Credits to @bropines)
  • Fixed an issue where only File Explorer tabs would close instead of the entire window by safely utilizing native SC_CLOSE commands (Credits to @bropines)

Updates

  • Updated the title fetching logic to prioritize native GetWindowTextW fallback for better title extraction and consistency
  • Updated the static ... overflow indicator into dynamic directional chevrons (▲, ▼, ◀, ▶) depending on the layout orientation
  • Updated keyboard shortcut handling to natively support Ctrl+W and Del for closing the selected window
  • Updated default value for Virutal Desktop Behavior to show windows from all virtual displays

Additions

  • Added a new setting sortMinimizedWindowsToEnd to prevent game windows that minimize on focus loss from being incorrectly sorted to the end of the list (Credits to @bropines)
  • Added Alt+Backtick shortcut support with a configurable setting to cycle backwards or filter exclusively to windows of the same active application
  • Added a "Show close button" (showCloseButton) setting toggle under Appearance -> Thumbnails to easily hide the X button
  • Added advanced scroll wheel customization options (Scroll Wheel Action & Secondary Modifiers) to allow seamless toggle between selection scrolling and full-page scrolling

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bropines and others added 5 commits July 12, 2026 01:12
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Merge pull request #1 from bropines/simple-window-switcher-fixes
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simple-window-switcher: apply window switching fixes and add sortMinimizedWindowsToEnd setting
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Fix bugs and refine features for Simple Window Switcher
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- Implemented dynamic strict pagination behavior in 'Scroll Pages' mode via CyclePage and g_isPaginatedView. (incomplete)

- Refactored ShouldListInAltTab to prioritize native parent windows (GW_OWNER) over popup children, fixing child popups hijacking the active menu.

- Switched default window close behavior back to SC_CLOSE to address File Explorer tab bugs.

- Implemented setting toggles for showCloseButton and overflow indicators.

- Added dynamic overflow chevron rendering with 6px offset padding.

- Hardcoded GetOffscreenDelayPosition and CreateWindowEx coords to -9999 to permanently eradicate the single-monitor launch flash bug.

- Added support for closing selected window with Ctrl+W and Del shortcuts.

- Added Alt+Backtick same-app window switching.
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Bump version to 2.1
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Yet to fix the CyclePage() function. So keeping the PR as a draft now.

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File Explorer window closed instead of individual tabs: confirmed fixed.

Child windows: partially fixed. When VMware Workstation, its Preferences window, and File Explorer (or any app) are on the same virtual desktop, pressing Alt+Tab while the Preferences window is focused selects File Explorer but fails to switch to that window.
When File Explorer is on VD 1 and VMware on VD 2, pressing Alt+Tab while the Preferences window is focused switches to File Explorer, pressing Alt+Tab again selects File Explorer again and switches to the same window instead of VMware.

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@AromaKitsune Fixed the issue, please do test it and let me know if its fully fixed 👍

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Child/Dialog windows confirmed fixed.
@sjain882 Please test this updated mod with MFC apps. I tested it only with an ATL/WTL app.

2026-07-14.14-23-32.mp4

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Waiting for @Asteski to add few improvements to Acrylic style.

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Child/Dialog windows confirmed fixed.
@sjain882 Please test this updated mod with MFC apps. I tested it only with an ATL/WTL app.

2026-07-14.14-23-32.mp4

I can confirm that child/dialog windows are fixed for VS2015 and MFC apps

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