right click them,
I want to know which ones are running on that monitor.
but you're a programmer, why do you even care about the dock at all, you should hide it and use hammerspoon to make your system more suited for you.
Because I'm a programmer. I have enough code to write and maintain, and because if it was possible, I assume someone else would have done it by now given how much it's asked for.
On windows and KDE Plasma it definitely shows just the running application.
First of all no, on windows that's a setting, because windows has settings for things. You can either
- Show the running applications
- Show the running windows but collapse them into their application once the bar is full
- Show the running windows and never collapse them into their application
You can hover over it and get a ridiculously long list of windows but that's honestly just as bad as mac. They're both bad solutions. Either you right click and get a list of text you have to remember, or you get a picture of the window that you have to scroll (I usually have way more windows open than this)
Lmao, no they are not equally bad.
First of all, on windows you can also right click and get that shitty list, but you probably don't use that because it's worse than the hover.
Second, the hover exists, and is better. An image preview of the window plus it's title is easier to scan quickly.
Third, you can also three finger swipe left and right on a trackpad, or windows key plus arrow key left and right to switch between windows, and you get a handy horizontal list in the middle when you do so you know exactly where you are in that list.
I can't tell if these are jokes or not.
How do you switch between the running windows on a single monitor on a Mac, without having to consider every running application and window on your whole computer?
Alt Tabbing switches between applications, not windows.
Command + Arrow key, only switches between full screen windows / desktops, forcing you to full screen windows, just so you can quickly switch back and forth between them.
you can disable this.. like, what even is this complaint. You can literally hide it just like you can on windows.
The complaint is that Apple's designers are obnoxious as fuck to waste more space than Windows on a taskbar that does less.
so yeah you literally don't know how it works. it literally is the developer's choice for how long a notification stays up and if it is persistent or not.
No, it is not. The user chooses in the MacOS settings for an app whether that app getsalerts or banners, and that changes their behaviour entirely. Alerts disappear and get lost, banners persist on your desktop until you dismiss them.
How about this. Go try out Hammerspoon, go try out AltTab. If those are too difficult for you then use BetterTouchTool (though that costs money).
How about the trillion dollar corporation spend their time and money coding a functional window system into their 30 year old operating system? Or how about they stop using bullshit walled garden tactics like the iOS / Safari Rendering engine to force developers into buying Macs?
the single qualm about the popups not showing for 'true fullscreen' apps. But you don't like fs apps anyway! So don't use them!
Again, there is no way to switch between running windows on a single monitor.
I do not understand why some people feel the need to defend such a dumb fucking windowing system. You obviously recognize how nonsensical Apple's full screen system is, and yet you come in here to insist it's not worse then Windows' because it has awkward multi step equivalents to windows' single shortcuts.
American judges have also been hobbled by decades of Republican legislation and judicial interpretations.
The American legal system has fucked itself into a corner where judges have to make these incredibly dumb technical rulings in specific interpretations and precedence, whereas as judges in many other western countries have much more freedom to look at the big picture or take into account systemic effects.