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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode
Date: 13 Nov 2016 19:51:23 GMT
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On 2016-11-13, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> In article <5828b834$0$10166$c3e8da3$fdf4f6af@news.astraweb.com>, JF
> Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
>
>> Made the mistake of clicking on the "maximise" 3rd button on Firefox.
>> Brought the thing into the annoying full screen mode. How does one get
>> the hell out of this ?  I ended up command Q and then restarting it.
>> Nothing else seemed to work.
>
> esc

Note that pressing Escape doesn't work in all apps. What does seem to
work everywhere is moving the cursor to the top of the screen and
clicking the zoom/full screen button on the window title bar. The
keyboard shortcut Command-Control-F seems to work universally as well.

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