Continuing the discussion from How to make alt-backtick show/preview actual window (not just thumbnails in the popup)?:
5 years later I’m back in Linux (I was on macOS for a while) and I stumbled on my own post, and I see Gnome still doesn’t have this.
I’d like to make this a feature request. Sometimes the mini-windows are useful, but sometimes when windows look very similar it is difficult to tell them apart in when looking at the mini-windows.
What would be very helpful is for alt` to visually focus currently selected window, to make it easier to find a window.
I don’t want to replace alt` with altf6. Those are very different behaviors.
Here’s how it currently works (note that two code windows are hard to distinguish when viewing small mini-window previews):
The ideal would be that it can show the window previews, without actually changing their stacking order. The feature is supposed to be only a visual features. When exiting the window switcher (for example with esc) no windows should be affected and the stack of windows should be exactly as it was before.
The effect would be very similar to how Dash to Panel behaves, where in the following video we can see the actual windows being previewed, but when we do not make a selection and unhover on the mini-windows, the view goes back to how it was with no window focus changing and no stacking order modified, it purely a visual effect:
The mouse is not visible in the video, but I am hovering with the mouse on the mini-window thumbnails. In the last part of the video, I’m hovering in the native window switcher, and that’s where I’m wishing for the same effect.
