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Sonoma Caps-Lock indicator shows as a window in AltTab #2849
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This is either an issue with Sonoma, or Chrome. I'll keep the issue up so I can check it out for myself, once I'm on Sonoma. But I can already tell you that this issue is not an AltTab bug. |
Thank you for your reply! Displaying the Caps-Lock status as a small icon seems to be a new feature of the macOS 14. |
This seems to be an issue with Sonoma since the same issue is reproducible using Firefox, Sublime Text and a bunch of other apps too. |
The same behavior appears when the input language indicator shows up. I was trying to add it to the blacklist in the AltTab, but with no luck. The indicator seems to 'belong' to a parent window, of the focused application. Another workaround would be to disable the indicator itself. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/caps-lock-icon.2391867/page |
I've updated to Sonoma today, and was able to look into this issue. Sonoma adds a window to show the indicator. It creates the window, in the app which has the active input field.
It's unfortunate that Apple keeps introducing new issues with each release. See the second paragraph here. Closing this as unactionable |
I'm using macOS 14.1.1 + AltTab 6.64.0 and can't reproduce the issue with the caps lock indicator. The indicator is still shown by the system, but it doesn't show as a window in AltTab. |
However, the indicator is not limited to caps-lock: it can also be shown when one has multiple input sources. So far I have seen it come up in specific situations:
(1) isn't detected by AltTab, but (2) is. I can't find any other application that causes this when switching away from it (macOS's |
@victorlin, you can disable the inline language indicator with
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In the latest MacOS system 14.0 Sonoma, the uppercase and lowercase status of the current input method will be displayed (as a small icon), but in alttab, this small icon will be regarded as a window, which brings inconvenience to window switching.
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