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Aerofly

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Jul 20, 2022
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Hi, I’m a noob to the Mac, I have an M2 MacBook Air and I’m more used to the iPad. I seem to have somehow replaced the two diagonal arrowheads in the green traffic light button on my ‘Settings’ window with a ‘+’, and have no idea how or what it does. Can someone please explain what I’ve done, and how to correct it. Thanks
 

Bigwaff

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Sep 20, 2013
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Hi, I’m a noob to the Mac, I have an M2 MacBook Air and I’m more used to the iPad. I seem to have somehow replaced the two diagonal arrowheads in the green traffic light button on my ‘Settings’ window with a ‘+’, and have no idea how or what it does. Can someone please explain what I’ve done, and how to correct it. Thanks
Sounds like you have Sonoma installed
 

Aerofly

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Jul 20, 2022
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Can you post a screenshot?
I had to take a photo of the screen rather than a screenshot, as a screenshot blanked out the ‘traffic light’ buttons…….

I should also add I’m using Seqouia 15.0.1

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raythompsontn

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Feb 8, 2023
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replaced the two diagonal arrowheads in the green traffic light button on my ‘Settings’ window with a ‘+’,
That seems to be normal. Application windows have the diagonal arrows, the system settings dialog has the '+'. This is probably because one is an application window that can be minimized or maximized, the settings is just a dialog box that really cannot be maximized to full screen, just expanded. You didn't do anything.

The arrows are for going full screen. The '+' is just for expanding.
 

Aerofly

macrumors newbie
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Jul 20, 2022
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That seems to be normal. Application windows have the diagonal arrows, the system settings dialog has the '+'. This is probably because one is an application window that can be minimized or maximized, the settings is just a dialog box that really cannot be maximized to full screen, just expanded. You didn't do anything.

The arrows are for going full screen. The '+' is just for expanding.
Thanks for the reply, I just didn’t realise that the System Settings had always had the ‘+’. At least I now know I didn’t change it accidentally. Cheers for setting me straight.
 

HDFan

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Jun 30, 2007
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Ah, now I see. The characters appear when you hit the green full screen button. Disappear when you minimize.
 
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