Hi!
I've noticed that alt+tab works in a weird way when using displayFusion. It only shows the programs that are running om my main monitor and not my secondary. Is there anyway to change this so that i can alt+tab between all programs? This would be very helpful!

Yeah its Win 8. Any ETA on when it will be fixed.

Is there any update on this issue? I noticed 4.3 came out today, but Alt-Tab still isn't working for me properly on Windows 8.

I tried "Alt+Tab Handler: Force Enabled", and it seems to fix the Alt Tab problem.

One issue: it appears to not update the window title in the alt-tab display

New DisplayFusion user... nice work.

Paul

So far so good it appears! THanks!

Chrome

Ditto for Firefox

Speaking of Alt+Tab, I am seeing the lag mentioned elsewhere now. But it's not where I'd expect it. I assumed it was when the switcher was appearing, but I'm actually seeing lag after releasing Alt and before the switcher disappears.

Seems to be working much better so far. Can't get an incorrect tab title to display for FF yet.

Most often I run with about two rows of tabs. I'll let you know if I see this still in b4.

so, I've been using this fix for a while after finding it and it seems DisplayFusion sometimes "loses" the alt+tab handle and it reverts back to the Windows alt+tab handler. The workaround is to restart DisplayFusion when this happens, but it's kind of obnoxious. I haven't noticed a pattern for when it happens or what might trigger it yet.

Is there any additional information I can provide to help track this down?

Okay, debug logging is on.

okay, it happened again just now (roughly 3:43 PM local time)

EDIT:

It seems mostly to coincide with me playing a game called "World of Tanks," as it did this time. I can't recall a time where it happened when I was not playing this game, so maybe it's got something to do with that.

Hello, I apologize for resurrecting an old thread but this is a frequent issue for me. So much so that I have turned off multi-monitor taskbars in Windows 8 so that I don't have to deal with the issue anymore.

Is there any new information? If needed, I can also provide debugging/log info. In my experience, the alt-tab handler reverts back to Windows 8's handler randomly and frequently. I'd say roughly once per day or perhaps once every 2 days. (This is on my work computer, so a day is constant 8 hour usage.)

Please let me know if there is an update or if you need anything else. Thanks!

Well, it's been 2 weeks since I turned on debugging and I haven't had a single issue with the alt-tab handler on my work computer and I use it all the time. Either you guys fixed it somehow or the gremlins are being particularly mean to me!

I just upgraded to Win 8 and I'm having the exact same issue. I've got Win 8 x64 & Display Fusion Pro 5.1.0 (Beta 5) installed.

I've attached my log file following your instructions. The problem persisted even after restart DF - I haven't tried restarting Windows yet...

Edit: I just saw the advanced setting for the DF Alt+Tab handler and that seems to do the trick.

It finally happened again!

This morning around 1128am or 1129am Central Time, US.

Log file is attached. Hope this helps!

Absolutely! I have installed the beta version and will reply with a log as soon as it happens again.

A side note: This has happened to me a few times in the last week and every time, I have noticed that a totally separate app called "DDMM" also stops working at the exact same time. Hopefully this is not a problem with Windows 8 that can not be fixed!

Thanks again.

Just happened again. Log file attached.

Restarting DF always fixes it, regardless of if DDMM is still running or not. Same with restarting DDMM. I just thought it was interesting that both fail at the same time. However, I've noticed in the past 2 days that DDMM fails on its own sometimes while DF continues to work correctly. So who knows.

I noticed the alt-tab handler had stopped working immediately before the first of the 2 DisplayFusion restarts. Yes, the computer was locked overnight. I came into work this morning, did a few things, then noticed alt-tab was not working. Hope that helps!

Unfortunately, I did not try it directly after I unlocked the computer. It was probably 30-60 minutes after that when I tried it and it did not work. Sorry!

Thanks! Downloading now.

Side note:

I noticed that you guys have added a couple more functions for moving the mouse cursor around. Very cool! If you could just add 1 more that moves the mouse cursor identical to how DDMM does, that would be awesome and even more-so solidify my purchase of this wonderful software.

Basically, the options you have are nice but DDMM simply enables moving the cursor to the next monitor in the same (relative) position that it was in when the command was given. So if you have 3 monitors (as I do at home), you can tell DDMM the order of the monitors and then it will move from 1 to 2 or 2 to 3 or 3 back to 1. I have gotten so used to being able to do this with a button on my mouse that I use it literally hundreds of times a day and never move my cursor between monitors manually!

It looks like the functions being added are very similar so I'm hoping that it would be fairly trivial to add this one slight change. Thanks!

Uh, wow. That was insanely fast; you guys are awesome.

I'm also a software developer and I know the great feeling of when a customer gives good feedback so please tell the dev that implemented this: "YOU RULE."

I just finally got around to googling on the alt-tab issue I had noticed with DisplayFusion and Win8 and found this page - awesome fix! Seems to be working well!

One thing I noticed is that the alt-tab handler seems to pick up Dexpot and its plugins as running applications, even though they are only running in the tray (no active windows). I had dexpot running with the plugins for DexControl, DexCube, Slideshow, and Wallpaper Clock - and I was getting alt-tab applications shown for the Dexpot app, Wallpaper Clock, and Slideshow. Turning off the plugins for the clock and slideshow made those two go away. leaving only Dexpot.

Anyway, even with this quirk, this is way better than alt-tabbing only through my primary monitor applications, so I can live with it, but thought I would bring it up here. Maybe a "ignore applications for Alt-Tab" compatibility setting?

This is as of the 5.1.0 (Beta 11) that just dropped. I don't know if the issue was occurring before this build, since I didn't have the alt-tab handler enabled before now. Let me know if you need more information from me.

Thanks and keep up the great work.

Keith

Keith,
The alt-tab handler windows seems to appear on the main monitor. I wonder if you could provide a setting that forces the window to appear on the monitor where the mouse is? The other option that may be even nicer would be to open handler windows on each monitor that reflect the current application set that is specific to the monitor; tabbing would do main monitor then onto secondary etc.
Pete

Well, I just tried my steps again and I'm not reproducing the issue anymore either. Maybe I needed a good reboot after changing the configuration of either displayfusion or Dexpot. Not sure which, but everything appears to be fine now. FYI, I am using the version of Dexpot that you mentioned - 1.6.9.2285.

Sorry, I should have rebooted once before reporting it.

Thanks for the response,

Keith

Sorry to resurrect this thread yet again, but I just had my alt-tab handler fail on me again for the first time in quite a while. I have attached the log. I am also going to update from beta 12 to beta 13 to see if that fixes it. Hope this helps!

No, I was using Beta 12 when it occurred. I have since upgraded to Beta 13 and it hasn't happened again. I'll update again if it does.

However, I've noticed a definite slow-down in alt-tab performance since upgrading to Beta 13.

How about showing the alt-tab window on the active monitor instead of just on the main monitor?

Like me you didn't read other requests that were already on the site see #48 and #49 as reply.
Pete

Just want to throw my two cents, this feature doesn't work in my setup because I use a Mac keyboard on my Windows machine and I run AutoHotKeys to switch my alt and my option keys on my keyboard (because you know, Mac likes to be all different lol).

I have this script running on AutoHotKeys:


If I shutdown AutoHotKeys, then the alt-tab handler works fine.