What is the correct way to switch between OS X programs?

Question

macOS

It would seem a banal question, I'm ashamed to ask, but ever since I got a poppy with 10.7, I noticed an interesting oddity. Sometimes you work in two programs, for example, I write in phpstorm and switch to FF, and if you press Cmd + Tab, what is interesting in the title of the program changes, but the window still hangs in one place! How many times it was so uncountable. The programs are hung on different slave tables, and it does not turn over until you swipe the screen on the program on the trackpad.

And it also happens that you “switch” to another program, but you see, in fact, the tighter where it was, you want to close it by pressing Cmd + Q and turn off the one that is now not on your screen, but hangs in the program header, which you don’t need complete.

The question is painfully embarrassing, but it seems to be tormenting - whoever knows how to be, please tell me.

Thanks for your time and answers.

Now I have 10.8.1

Answer 1

Weird, ⌘ + Tab works as expected.

Answer 2

Found the solution! I thought about the note and here it is the solution: d.pr/i/qyVe
You need to check the Mission Control! Phew. Thanks to all.

Answer 3

I found this thing:
In the new "Leopard" version 10.5.2, there is a hidden opportunity to change the behavior of Spaces when switching applications using Cmd-Tab. You can cancel switching desktops when you change the active application. To do this, run the following command in the terminal:
defaults write com.apple.Dock workspaces-auto-swoosh -bool NO
After that, restart the Dock with killall Dock.
This method has one peculiarity. If you have linked a program to a specific desktop and try to switch to it while on another desktop, you will not see it. For example, Safari is tied to the first table while you are on the second. You press Cmd-Tab, switch to Safri and press Cmd-N to create a new window. You will not see windows on the second desktop. But it will be created on the first. In principle, it looks quite logical, but sometimes it is very confusing. Keep in mind.
It's just not clear how to live with it, and how to fix it.

Answer 4

No need to write anything (in the terminal), a simple combination of cmd + tab + alt on the selected program, and any window, whether it wants to or not, will come out to the fore. I've been wrestling with this for a long time.

Answer 5

I use cmd tab to jump over the application only if the application is expanded to full screen. If the app I want to jump to is not full screen, I only see the title of the app. And the working window remains the same.
In general, I'm still trying to solve the issue of quickly jumping from program to program. So far there is no solution.