command+tilde window switching not working well in Lion

Had same problem with 2013 MacBook Air running Sierra. Could toggle windows in Ms Word but not Safari.

Followed all instructions below and had no joy but this is what did it for me:

In Sys Prefs/Keyboaard/Shortcuts/Keyboard:

"Restore Defaults"

[Move Focus to Next Window musts be checked]

and [All the way at the bottom of that same window] at

"Full Keyboard Access, etc..."

punch the radio button for "Text boxes and lists only"

I had it on All Controls, and when I switched it Full Keyboard Access, command tilde now works for Safari and for Word and in the Finder.

I did find one glitch with this. If you maximize a window using the Full Screen keyboard command or the Green Radio button in the upper left of windows, command tilde window toggling is now off in that application.

But if you manually stretch out the windows, command tilde window toggling is still on...

Oh Apple...

What browser are you using?

If it is Chrome try control+Tab to switch between Tabs.

If you have multiple browser Windows Open then it is Command+~ to switch between open windows of the same program. If you hve 2 different browsers open, like Safari and Chrome, then to switch between Programs it is Command+Tab.

I don't use Safari so I'm not sure how that works.

Retracted.

Peter Berdovsky1 wrote:

Sigh. No idea how to fix that. Oh well... I guess I have to get used to being crippled

It has to be specific to your computer. It is working fine on mine and it would seem from the lack of replies on others as well.

If no one else has had this probelm and been able to fix it then no one knows what the problem is.

I just opened 2 windows of Chrome, Word and Safari. Command+Tab switches between programs, Command+Tilde switches between windows of the same program, for all of these programs I have open, and Control+Tab switches between Tabs in Chrome (don't have any other tabs open in Safari).

You need to take it in and have it checked.

Really it works fine for me and many others, otherwise there would be more replies to this thread and more threads about it.

Sorry to say but you are doing something wrong. As you have found out it is not the OS or the specific computer that you are having this same thing happen on. So lets look at the common denominator. That would be you and your fingers on the keys. Or it could be some specific seting that you change on all your Mac's that is causing this to happen.

Good Luck.

Well then we are getting to the bottom of this. The 2 computers are clones of the same OS install. So yes it is more then likely a corrupted system file or files. More then likely nothing short of a wipe and reinstall would fix it. But you could try re-installing Lion over the top of the original Lion install.

Dude, I have the same problem and I'm running Leopard 10.5.8. I have had many other "strange" problems and have reinstalled 10.4 and 10.5 so many times I cannot remember. I also have a 15" MBP, but mine is from 2006 (yeah, Vintage). So, you're not nuts. I just had to reinstall 10.5 again, issues with lost iPhoto library, 2 of the same apps running at the same time, application preferences changing for no apparent reason, major access printing issues, 3/4 copies of pictures all to the sudden, airport - that was the final straw - spent 24 hours trying to get back on line after I turned Airport off 1 time. Oh ~ there is so much more. But, I digress..

I had the command+tilde thing problem before in 10.5.8 and somehow fixed it. It's been a while, but I'm trying to remember and will post if I can find it. I gotta fix mine too. It is maddening not having that feature.

Oh great, the other thing, my screen background going from pure white to cream - display darkening. And emails/documents being edited right after or whilst I'm writing. Tres bizarre. It's as if I there were scripts being written/run/ran as I spoke. Perhaps some Remote thing. But, that's impossible with Apple... Right?????

Cheers

CAT

Yeah they just Work. Who ever thought up that one?

P.S. Shootest007 - I know you're at level 4 and all, and I being a mere 1, but this is a real problem. I thought it was (and so Apple told me) that my machine is old, but Peter's is 2011, so it's not a hardware problem. It's something else.