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How do you change the delay for showing the UI?

> Delay before showing the UI to avoid flashing (default 200ms)

What's flashing?

Have you thought about enabling going backwards by pressing ` while control is held down?



I believe OP means that if you press Alt+Tab and release the keys quickly, it'll simply swap to the last window without showing ("flashing") any UI overlay at all.


The Windows one doesn't --- at least on XP, that is; Alt+Tab causes the switch window to show up the instant it's pressed.

The delay may be the reason others here are noticing that it's "slow".


Neither does the switcher on Windows 10.


You can change this line: https://github.com/lwouis/alt-tab-macos/blob/6b5e426e05d47c2...

from 0.2 to whichever delay you want in seconds (0 is valid)




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