Another Keyboard Maestro Option

Launchbar-App-Swticher.mp4Speaking of Keyboard Maestro‘s app switcher, another option I tried out was to remap Finder’s Command-Tab to:

  1. Invoke LaunchBar,
  2. Execute Command-R, which is LaunchBar’s application switcher.

It’s not really an application switcher, but Command-R in LaunchBar shows you a list of running applications. It is sticky, so that the list of applications remains on the screen until you either mouse or use the keyboard to select a running application; macOS’s app switch disappears when you release the Command key. In LaunchBar’s list, you can use the arrow keys to navigate the menu, but the power-user move is to type the name of the application you want to switch to.

As with Keyboard Maestro’s application switcher, friction comes in that you may be so used to Command-Tab and Shift-Command-Tab to switch applications that, for however much you like the feature in LaunchBar, you won’t use it. Replacing Command-Tab with your LaunchBar invocation command and adding Command-R to the chain solves that problem nicely.1

1I’m still sticking with the Finder. Old habits die hard.