I made a macOS-style app switcher for COSMIC
Hey everyone,
Earlier this year I made the jump, fully switched to Linux on my personal machine. Coming from macOS there are obviously some adjustments, but one thing that kept nagging at me was the app switcher. On macOS it pops up right in the centre of the screen, so your eyes never have to leave where you're already looking. The default Super+Tab on COSMIC shows your open apps at the top of the screen, and on a larger monitor constantly glancing up there just never felt natural to me.
So I built one.
cosmic-app-switcher is a macOS-style horizontal app switcher for COSMIC desktop. It shows your open windows centred on screen as a floating overlay, hold Super, tab through, release to switch. That's it.
I built this clearly with the help of Claude, which made it genuinely possible for me to tackle the Wayland protocol quickly.
It's fully open-source:
👉 https://github.com/j0rdiun/cosmic-app-switcher
One-line install (no Rust required):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/j0rdiun/cosmic-app-switcher/main/install.sh | bash
If anyone's wants to give it a go, I'd genuinely love the feedback. Bug reports, ideas, PRs all welcome.