Let me explain.

Coming from windows, if i have my monitor split into halfs with firefox, for example, youtube on the left and lemmy on the right, and I am typing on lemmy, I just click on the youtube video on the left once to stop/start it.

On macos in same scenario, the youtube window is “inactive” and then i have to click it once for the window to be the active one, and again to stop the video. It feels like my mac is not responsive because I expect the first click to stop the video. It’s been weeks using a mac and I still can’t get used to this for some reason.

I know this is nitpicking but is this normal macos behaviour or can this be changed?

  • rabberOP
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    20 days ago

    ⌘` and then click

    that’s what I was looking for, thanks

    • heavyboots@lemmy.ml
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      9 days ago

      Or cmd-tab if you’re coming from a different app. Also, when you’re in cmd-tab mode you can do things like cmd-Q on the currently selected app to quit it. There’s a lot of deep little hidden tricks in the GUI. Just takes a while to figure them out and become a power user. I also recommend if you have a multi-button mouse to bind some of the buttons to Show Desktop and Show All Windows (under the Desktop and Dock “Shortcuts” button at the very bottom).