# Win+Tab not working on Vista?

**URL:** <https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/win-tab-not-working-on-vista/16745>\
**Category:** SDL Development\
**Created:** [October 22, 2009, 4:13pm UTC](https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/win-tab-not-working-on-vista/16745 "2009-10-22T16:13:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gabriel\_Gambetta](https://discourse.libsdl.org/user_avatar/discourse.libsdl.org/gabriel_gambetta/32/4004_2.png) [@Gabriel\_Gambetta](https://discourse.libsdl.org/u/Gabriel_Gambetta)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 4:13pm UTC](https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/win-tab-not-working-on-vista/16745/1 "2009-10-22T16:13:43Z")

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I’ve just made a leap of faith and upgraded our SDL libs to the latest  
versions. Since we’re delivering two gold masters momentarily, it’s probably  
not a good idea 🙂

On a more serious note, this upgrade does solve a couple of issues we were  
having, but it looks like the Win+Tab key combination isn’t doing anything  
when the SDL app is in full screen mode. Bug? Feature? Can anyone else  
reproduce?

Thanks,  
–Gabriel

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**Author:** ![slouken](https://discourse.libsdl.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@slouken](https://discourse.libsdl.org/u/slouken)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 4:31am UTC](https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/win-tab-not-working-on-vista/16745/2 "2009-10-23T04:31:17Z")

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What is Win+Tab supposed to do? Are you talking about Alt-Tab? That  
works for me with testwm -fullscreen…On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Gabriel Gambetta wrote:

> I’ve just made a leap of faith and upgraded our SDL libs to the latest  
> versions. Since we’re delivering two gold masters momentarily, it’s probably  
> not a good idea 🙂
> 
> On a more serious note, this upgrade does solve a couple of issues we were  
> having, but it looks like the Win+Tab key combination isn’t doing anything  
> when the SDL app is in full screen mode. Bug? Feature? Can anyone else  
> reproduce?
> 
> Thanks,  
> –Gabriel
> 
> * * *
> 
> SDL mailing list  
> SDL at [lists.libsdl.org](http://lists.libsdl.org)  
> [http://lists.libsdl.org/listinfo.cgi/sdl-libsdl.org](http://lists.libsdl.org/listinfo.cgi/sdl-libsdl.org)

–  
-Sam Lantinga, Founder and President, Galaxy Gameworks LLC

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**Author:** ![Gabriel\_Gambetta](https://discourse.libsdl.org/user_avatar/discourse.libsdl.org/gabriel_gambetta/32/4004_2.png) [@Gabriel\_Gambetta](https://discourse.libsdl.org/u/Gabriel_Gambetta)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 3:39pm UTC](https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/win-tab-not-working-on-vista/16745/3 "2009-10-23T15:39:10Z")

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No, Alt+Tab works fine. In Vista Win+Tab does something similar to Expose in  
Mac, at least when you have all the effects turned on. Right now with SDL  
this functionality doesn’t activate. If Alt+Tab is specifically left for  
Windows to process, supporting Win+Tab should be as easy as doing the same  
which is done with Alt+Tab.

–GabrielOn Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:31 AM, Sam Lantinga wrote:

> What is Win+Tab supposed to do? Are you talking about Alt-Tab? That  
> works for me with testwm -fullscreen…
> 
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Gabriel Gambetta wrote:
> 
> > I’ve just made a leap of faith and upgraded our SDL libs to the latest  
> > versions. Since we’re delivering two gold masters momentarily, it’s  
> > probably  
> > not a good idea 🙂
> > 
> > On a more serious note, this upgrade does solve a couple of issues we  
> > were  
> > having, but it looks like the Win+Tab key combination isn’t doing  
> > anything  
> > when the SDL app is in full screen mode. Bug? Feature? Can anyone else  
> > reproduce?
> > 
> > Thanks,  
> > –Gabriel
> > 
> > * * *
> > 
> > SDL mailing list  
> > SDL at [lists.libsdl.org](http://lists.libsdl.org)  
> > [http://lists.libsdl.org/listinfo.cgi/sdl-libsdl.org](http://lists.libsdl.org/listinfo.cgi/sdl-libsdl.org)
> 
> –  
> -Sam Lantinga, Founder and President, Galaxy Gameworks LLC
> 
> * * *
> 
> SDL mailing list  
> SDL at [lists.libsdl.org](http://lists.libsdl.org)  
> [http://lists.libsdl.org/listinfo.cgi/sdl-libsdl.org](http://lists.libsdl.org/listinfo.cgi/sdl-libsdl.org)

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**Author:** ![Kenneth\_Bull](https://discourse.libsdl.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@Kenneth\_Bull](https://discourse.libsdl.org/u/Kenneth_Bull)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 1:47am UTC](https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/win-tab-not-working-on-vista/16745/4 "2009-10-24T01:47:15Z")

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2009/10/23 Gabriel Gambetta :

> No, Alt+Tab works fine. In Vista Win+Tab does something similar to Expose in  
> Mac, at least when you have all the effects turned on. Right now with SDL  
> this functionality doesn’t activate. If Alt+Tab is specifically left for  
> Windows to process, supporting Win+Tab should be as easy as doing the same  
> which is done with Alt+Tab.

On XP, Win+TAB shows the taskbar, if hidden, and indicates which  
window is currently selected. Pressing Win+TAB again, changes which  
window is selected, pressing enter brings the selected window to the  
foreground if it is the last item in the taskbar, or for all other  
items, minimises or restores the window. I think this inconsistent  
behaviour is probably not intentional…