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shortcut to un-minimizing windows?

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Star Destroyer

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So far i have been using my keyboard shortcuts as much as i can instead of having to use the trackpad while on my macbook, but i have noticed that their is a keyboard shortcut to minimize a window (Apple+m) but once its down there thats its. I have not come across a shortcut to bring it back up, does one exist?

Its a little thing, but i have noticed it sucking, i guess i could just hide everything, but sometimes i just dont want to hahaa..

soo does it exist in Tiger?
 
You can do it from the keyboard...but it's not the most direct route. At least the way I found isn't.

You can shift focus to the dock by hitting control-F3, then cursor down or over to the hidden app, and hit enter.
 
kingjr3 said:
I think it works if you hide the application (Command+h), I always confuse the two.
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Yeah, you are right. In fact I think I might start using "hide" now instead of "minimize" simply because it does what I want better. I don't really need to see a little preview in the dock. Thanks for the tip!
 
I've been playing with "hide" for the last few minutes. It does work really well but I found some limitations.

1. If you hide a window in say Firefox, it hides the entire app, so all the windows disappear.

2. You are limited to only hiding 3 apps at a time.

It still is pretty cool. Wish there was a way to combine hide and minimize. Maybe Spaces in Leopard will solve some of these things.
 
adrianblaine said:
I've been playing with "hide" for the last few minutes. It does work really well but I found some limitations.

1. If you hide a window in say Firefox, it hides the entire app, so all the windows disappear.

2. You are limited to only hiding 3 apps at a time.

It still is pretty cool. Wish there was a way to combine hide and minimize. Maybe Spaces in Leopard will solve some of these things.
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1. Why don't you use tabs in Firefox?

2. Nope, you can hide as many applications as you want.
 
Yeah i was playing around with this, and you can hide as many apps as you like, but still no un-minimizing :(

and when I ctrl-F3 all it does is adjust my volume..
 
adrianblaine said:
1. If you hide a window in say Firefox, it hides the entire app, so all the windows disappear.

2. You are limited to only hiding 3 apps at a time.
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1. Yes, because hiding hides the whole app, it's not meant for individual windows.

2. No, you can hide any amount of apps.

Star Destroyer said:
and when I ctrl-F3 all it does is adjust my volume..
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Try fn-ctrl-f3. it's cause the key on your laptop normally adjusts the volume unless you hold the fn key (you can reverse the behavior in System Preferences).

I almost never minimize windows. It would be nice if you could bring them back with a shortcut, but how would that work? You have to have some way of telling it which window you want to bring up, unless the shortcut were to un-minimize ALL windows. That wouldn't be so bad either.
 
1. Why don't you use tabs in Firefox?

2. Nope, you can hide as many applications as you want.
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Yes, I use tabs in Firefox, but I also like having separate windows as well so I can command~ through them. Its more complicated to switch between tabs with the keyboard.

It is weird that I am only able to hide three Apps at a time. I tried it at least 20 times with different combinations of different programs and after I hid the 3rd app it would not let me hide any more.
 
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