![]() ![]() It's an inexpensive background app that has a menu bar presence to allow setting preferences. Choose Touchpad Gesture as desired (I chose 2 Finger Swipe Down)Īs mentioned in an answer to the other question about this, which is now closed, Mission Control Plus exists to do exactly this.Īs the app's developer wrote there, MCP adds an "X" to the upper left corner of a window when you hover over it in Mission Control clicking the "X" closes that window.Choose Close Window Below Cursor for the Predefined Action dropdown.In the bottom right choose Add New Gesture.If everything went OK you see the logo in the top right of your screen Click on the hyperlink or click here to activate immediately.This site is where BetterTouchTool used to be hosted as explained on the site. Visit to get a license otherwise it's only 45 days.It stops if you either reinstall or give permission. If this happens it's just asking you to go to System preferences > Security and Privacy > Accessibility and give BetterTouchTool permission. There is an intermittent bug where a prompt keeps flashing to the foreground then background (and repeats) telling you to give BetterTouchTool permission (occurs one in three times).Choose 2.05 which begin the download (this is the latest legacy free version available that works I tried which has 2.342 but it didn't work on macOS Big Sur).Installing Better Touch Tool (legacy version) Open AltTab from Launchpad -> Appearance -> Hide apps with no open windows.Open AltTab from Launchpad -> Controls > Show Window From > Visible Spaces.Two modifications are required to make it like Mission Control There are two ways to close windows using AltTab. You could see it as the Windows 10 version of Windows management. (Legacy versions of) BetterTouchTool is the only free solution but it's unmaintained and buggy.Īn alternative application is AltTab, it achieves the exact same thing as Mission Control - and more. ![]() The gesture then no longer works and the application isn't closed. Rather than making it global assigning a gesture to Mission Control doesn't work.So using a two finger swipe down could close any application at any time. Gesture (if global) could be triggered even if mission control isn't open.TL DR after extensive testing I cannot recommend Better Touch Tool I mentioned below. No (maintained/working) free solutions exist Legacy versions of his apps (released before February 2018) can still be used for free. The developer of this app has set up a new site for its distribution. However, if you have multiple windows open you could inadvertently close the wrong window. NOTE: - You could also use the heads up display to quickly navigate to an App and, once there, use the command+ W keyboard shortcut to close the window. Once the app you want to quit is selected, press the Q key to quit the app.Cycle through the apps by pressing the tab key or the ~ key.Keep holding the command key once when you see the heads-up display.Press command tab to open the heads-up display.This will then work from Mission control.īy the way, if you're wanting to close an App rather than just a window, you can also do this via the heads-up display. Set the Predefined Action as Close window below cursor. ![]() Set up a Touchpad Gesture (such as a 3 finger click).If this is something that interests you, then you would: ![]() However, if you have a trackpad or touchpad, you may find that using a gesture instead of a keyboard shortcut avoids the problems outlined in the question linked to by Anthonin C. You can use do this by using Better Touch Tool as suggested by Anthonin C's comment. ![]()
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