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God, I wish the opposite! After years of using AwesomeWM [1], now that I'm stuck in OS X for work I feel like I'm tied down and handicapped. While I'm around,

God, I wish the opposite! After years of using AwesomeWM [1], now that I'm stuck in OS X for work I feel like I'm tied down and handicapped. While I'm around, anyone know the keyboard shortcut to UNminimize a window? [1] https://awesome.naquadah.org/ https://awesome.naquadah.org/

notyourwork 10y ago
> While I'm around, anyone know the keyboard shortcut to UNminimize a window? Are you referencing when you minimize a window and want to get back to it without using the mouse or trackpad to click it from the bar? If so I have a suggestion. Let's assume I minimized a firefox window. Now I want that back. 1. ⌘-tab (hold ⌘ to leave selectable windows open) 2. Use left/right arrow to get to firefox 3. Press down. 4. Select window to UNminimize and press enter. This is convoluted and probably not what you are looking for but its the best I have. Would love to hear from others? Also, apologies if I misread your question.
tvmalsv 10y ago
Another method is to ⌘-tab to the minimized app, and while still pressing ⌘, hold down the Option key and release ⌘. Not very elegant and it won't work if the app has a mix of minimized and non-minimized windows, but I usually don't have a mix. If that's the case, you can still use notyourwork's method above.
- pritambaral 10y ago
  I liked how some WMs handle windows of same application. I can Alt-Tab to a window of an app, and then — without releasing the Alt key — Alt-` to a different window of the same app. On Kwin, for example, going from Alt-Tab to Alt-` smoothly filters out all the non-same-app windows. Alt-Tab => Alt-` is also much easier than ⌘-tab => ⌘-Option => Option I'd think OS X's WM would have ⌘-tab => ⌘-`
  - AceJohnny2 10y ago
    OS X does have ⌘-` to switch between (unminimized) windows of a given app.
- AceJohnny2 10y ago
  Yeah, in my case I have a mix of open and minimized windows in a given app (Preview, iTerm, Emacs...), hence the issue. MacOS is not keyboard-only-friendly. It took me a year before someone pointed out the option to let "Tab" cycle through ALL controls in a dialog >_< (FYI: System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts, then at the bottom, the "Full Keyboard Access" radio buttons)

notyourwork 10y ago

> While I'm around, anyone know the keyboard shortcut to UNminimize a window? Are you referencing when you minimize a window and want to get back to it without using the mouse or trackpad to click it from the bar? If so I have a suggestion. Let's assume I minimized a firefox window. Now I want that back. 1. ⌘-tab (hold ⌘ to leave selectable windows open) 2. Use left/right arrow to get to firefox 3. Press down. 4. Select window to UNminimize and press enter. This is convoluted and probably not what you are looking for but its the best I have. Would love to hear from others? Also, apologies if I misread your question.

tvmalsv 10y ago

Another method is to ⌘-tab to the minimized app, and while still pressing ⌘, hold down the Option key and release ⌘. Not very elegant and it won't work if the app has a mix of minimized and non-minimized windows, but I usually don't have a mix. If that's the case, you can still use notyourwork's method above.

pritambaral 10y ago
I liked how some WMs handle windows of same application. I can Alt-Tab to a window of an app, and then — without releasing the Alt key — Alt-` to a different window of the same app. On Kwin, for example, going from Alt-Tab to Alt-` smoothly filters out all the non-same-app windows. Alt-Tab => Alt-` is also much easier than ⌘-tab => ⌘-Option => Option I'd think OS X's WM would have ⌘-tab => ⌘-`
- AceJohnny2 10y ago
  OS X does have ⌘-` to switch between (unminimized) windows of a given app.
AceJohnny2 10y ago
Yeah, in my case I have a mix of open and minimized windows in a given app (Preview, iTerm, Emacs...), hence the issue. MacOS is not keyboard-only-friendly. It took me a year before someone pointed out the option to let "Tab" cycle through ALL controls in a dialog >_< (FYI: System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts, then at the bottom, the "Full Keyboard Access" radio buttons)