WinFlipped

WinFlipped is an attempt to mimic the functionality of Flip3D (available on Windows Vista/7) on Windows 10/11.

It works by screen-grabbing all available windows (meaning that there are no live window thumbnails, unfortunately). For security and privacy reasons, screenshots are not saved anywhere.

This is not a perfect Flip3D replacement, but as far as I know, there is no better way, since Windows does not provide a good API for this (If you know one, please tell me).

This project is currently a WIP.

What is Flip3D?

According to www.pcmag.com:

Flip3D is "a feature of the earlier Aero interface in Windows that displayed the desktop and open apps in 3D. Pressing Windows key + Tab key invoked Flip 3D, and continually pressing Windows-Tab rotated the windows from back to front."

Requirements

• Windows 10/11

Usage

• Precompiled binaries, if available, can be found on the Releases tab
• The program can also be built from source
• You can assign a key combination to launch this program, using tools like AutoHotKey
• Press TAB to cycle through windows, and ENTER to switch to the selected one
• Press any other key to exit.

Notes

• This program is NOT TESTED on computers with multiple monitors and may not work properly
• This program is also NOT TESTED with multiple desktops
• Some programs may show up blank, since they use GPU rendering. I am currently finding a way to fix this

To-dos:

• Adjust the animation
• Find another way to get window thumbnails

Contributing to this project

Suggestions are welcomed.

License

MIT