Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode
Date	2016-11-14 01:59 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2016-11-14, Happy.Hobo <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> wrote:
> On 11-13-2016 14:06, JF Mezei wrote:
>> I was able to alt-tab to switch to other apps, but as soon as I came
>> back to Firefox, it would get back to the dreaded full screen mode.
>
> If you could get to other apps, then you could select Quit on the Dock 
> menu.  Even if you can't, probably Cmd-Alt-ESC would bring up the 
> Force-Quit option.
>
> For that matter, doesn't Cmd-Q still work when the app is full-screen?

Sure, but the next time the app launches, it will be full screen again.
So there's little point in just quitting the app.

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Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-11-13 14:00 -0500
  Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-11-13 14:11 -0500
    Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-13 19:51 +0000
      Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-11-13 15:06 -0500
        Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-13 20:08 +0000
        Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-11-13 16:39 -0500
          Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-11-13 17:08 -0500
            Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-11-13 17:13 -0500
              Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-13 22:21 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-11-13 17:45 -0500
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-13 23:44 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-11-13 23:32 -0500
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-14 05:22 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-14 07:29 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-14 17:31 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-11-14 18:36 -0500
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-15 05:08 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-15 05:24 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-15 05:50 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-11-15 08:36 -0500
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-15 23:50 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-11-15 19:14 -0500
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-16 01:05 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-11-15 20:47 -0500
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-16 13:45 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-11-16 18:53 -0500
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-17 16:36 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-11-19 09:43 -0500
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-19 19:50 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-11-19 15:22 -0500
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-19 21:31 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-19 21:59 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-19 21:56 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-11-19 18:32 -0500
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-11-17 01:07 -0500
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-17 08:16 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-11-17 15:19 -0500
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-18 03:20 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-11-15 08:36 -0500
            Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-13 22:22 +0000
        Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-11-13 19:37 -0600
          Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-14 01:59 +0000
        Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-14 07:26 +0000
          Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode befr@eaglesoft.de (Bernd Fröhlich) - 2016-11-14 09:09 +0100
      Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-14 07:25 +0000
        Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-14 17:06 +0000
        Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode David Ritz <dritz@mindspring.com> - 2016-11-14 12:46 -0600
          Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-15 05:06 +0000
            Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2016-11-15 19:46 +1300
  Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-13 19:49 +0000

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