Show HN: ThreeSweep – switch macOS windows with single trackpad swipe
Everyday I move between a Windows 11 laptop for work and a Mac laptop at home. What I kept missing on the Mac was the three-finger window switching from my work machine: window switching that is faster than alt+tab and single-hand, single-gesture. ThreeSweep is that (but on MacOS and in terms of MissionControl), enabling the same one-handed single-gesture window switch: you use three fingers to swipe left (or right), MissionControl appears, and you drag those same three fingers over to the windo
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Source account: Everyday I move between a Windows 11 laptop for work and a Mac laptop at home. What I kept missing on the Mac was the three-finger window switching from my work machine: window switching that is faster than alt+tab and single-hand, single-gesture. ThreeSweep is that (but on MacOS and in terms of MissionControl), enabling the same one-handed single-gesture window switch: you use three fingers to swipe left (or right), MissionControl appears, and you drag those same three fingers over to the windo
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