

In this respect, Mission Control and other graphical approaches to managing windows do have their limits, so the best option to manage them might still be to use keyboard shortcuts.

A further frustration in previewing the windows you would like to close is that as you close them their locations shift around in Mission Control, so if you select one and close it, the next time you invoke Mission Control others that were in one location will be in a different place.

If you have too many windows open, sometimes you might need to preview them before closing them, and while you can use Mission Control and similar tools to browse through the windows on your screen, with many open this may be rather difficult to do. To help in this process, Apple has included its Expose and Spaces features in OS X, and in Lion has implemented a combination of these two options called Mission Control, but these graphical approaches have limitations. If you want certain applications or certain windows with specific title out of the Witch list, here’s the place.Īs an added bonus, the “Appearance” tab will let you decide on the cosmetics to wear, such as: theme to use or color combination to take on Witch appearance.If you extensively use your Mac, you might regularly end up with many windows and tabs open on your screen at once, and organizing your workflow around these windows can sometimes be a chore.

But maybe the most useful feature here is the Exception part, which lets users decide which windows should (not) be excluded from the list. The “Behaviour” tab will let users, among others, decide how should Witch sort the list of open apps. This one is my personal favorite features of Witch, and I’m sure most of Mac users will find this useful also. It will automatically pull minimized windows out of the Dock when you switch to them. After you download and install Witch, a new Preference pane will appear and you can configure the way this application behave exactly the way you want, including the key combination to use in the “Triggers” tab. As the default shortcut key, Witch assign Option + Tab to switch between open Windows.
