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	2016-11-17 16:36 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2016-11-16, Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
> On 2016-11-16 08:45, Lewis wrote:
>> In message <582ba4f2$0$34694$c3e8da3$dbd57e7@news.astraweb.com>
>>   JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
>>> On 2016-11-15 18:50, Lewis wrote:
>>
>>>> Well then, if every space takes up all displays, the behavior is
>>>> exactly as it should be.
>>
>>> The fact that I didn't know how to disable that dreaded mode means
>>> that it isn't as expected.
>>
>> You must have known, since you enabled the dreadful mode.
>
> I see JF's point.  The green button is there to be pressed.  Once
> pressed there is nothing visible to undo it.  Escape usually works and
> is 95% obvious; the "push the cursor to the top and wait for the menu
> bar" is definitely not obvious.

True, but once you know how it works, it's not a big deal. One
improvement would be to momentarily display the menu and window title
bar after entering full screen mode, then slide them away until they are
hidden with animation to make it more obvious. Displaying an actually
textual message on the screen after entering the mode would also work,
though I've been annoyed in the past by such messages because the
message sometimes obscures the part of the screen / window I'm
interested in, or the message is displayed for longer than I wish. So
that's more problematic.

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JR

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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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