In tiger you used to be able to click on an app and it would bring up the associated minimised window. I can do this in Leopard. Is their a preference somewhere that will change this?
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small thing about dock Leopard
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HLdan
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It works the same way, why can't you do this? Tell us what exactly are you doing? Did you open and app and minimize it and then trying to bring it out of the dock? I don't understand what you are saying?
Yeah, I open the app, minimise the window (so it's sitting in the dock, on the right). Then I click on the app's dock shortcut (not the minimised window) but nothing happens. Like I said it's a small thing.
kkat69
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Has to be something with your setup because it DOES work this way still in Leopard.
Even when using spaces, if you minimize the app, change spaces, click on the Dock icon (not the minimized) it swap spaces and brings up the app.
Perhaps the app in question has more than one window open at the moment, and at least one of them is not minimized?
Some apps have a secret window, such as Firefox, that we aren't supposed to see, but nevertheless is there, somewhere. Perhaps something like this is happening.
Some apps have a secret window, such as Firefox, that we aren't supposed to see, but nevertheless is there, somewhere. Perhaps something like this is happening.
No hacks set up I'd never put anything like that on would be worried I'd break something. I'll do a little testing tonight and see if there's any way round it.
another thing to try is to check and see if clicking on the trash for example opens the trash window like it should. every once in a while, my dock stops opening finder windows unless i logout/in again. same with stacks - if i click the show in finder button at the top it does nothing.
a logout/in always fixes it though.
a logout/in always fixes it though.
HLdan
macrumors 603
What I would also recommend is putting your Leopard install disk in and boot up to the install screen and go into "Utilities" and choose "Disk Utility" and highlight the main disk drive on the sidebar and choose "Repair Disk" on the bottom right. There may be a couple of errors on your disk and this should correct your issue.