Fn+F does the job! It will maximize and minimize to a full-screen application.
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r/MacOS on Reddit: Why is it that shortcuts for minimize/maximize window will sometimes (seemingly randomly) just not work?
October 25, 2023 -
and what causes this?
for reference, all of these windows have the yellow circle between red and green clickable.
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Just use Rectangle app. It's shortcuts always work
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There is no minimize button. There is move to dock though. As far as maximize. There is no maximize button although they have added the ability enter full screen mode or to place a window on the left or right side of the screen.
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September 18, 2019 - The hot key for this is usually Command + H, or right-click or control-click the dock icon and select "Hide", or select the option by clicking on the app name on the menubar and selecting "Hide <appname>". FYI, If you click the maximize window option it actually makes the window go full screen ...
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Fn+F does the job! It will maximize and minimize to a full-screen application.
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Using macOS 15.2 Sequoia here.
The menu item window->fill, defaults to ⌃F (Ctrl+Fn+f), should do what you want.
The item window->center ⌃C (Ctrl+Fn+c) restores the original size and centers the window.
Menu item window->minimize ⌘M (Cmd+m) minimizes the window.
To remove the spacing around the "filled" window, you have to go to System Settings -> "Desktop & Dock" -> disable the option "Tiled windows have margins"
Apple Support
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Move and arrange app windows on Mac - Apple Support
Maximize a window: Hold the pointer over the green button in the top-left corner of an app window, then click below Fill & Arrange, or press Fn-Control-F.
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r/macbook on Reddit: How to automatically maximize any window I open on Mac
August 19, 2022 -
Hi all. I’ve looked this up but can’t seem to find the solution.
I would like to have all my windows maximized when I open them, in any application on my Macbook (Monterrey). I don’t want to open them in full screen, but just want them to always open maximized. Can anyone help me out?
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August 17, 2023 - There are way to do it as described in other replies, but I highly recommend the lightweight and free app Rectangle, because it gives you customizable keyboard shortcuts for various sizes and positions of windows. I created ⌘+⌥+⌃+= for maximize, and use it all the time.
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November 13, 2019 - 3) Minimize the current window (Command + M) Minimizing a window by clicking the yellow “minimize” button or using this keyboard shortcut doesn’t close it; instead, it moves a small thumbnail image of the window down to the right side ...
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One of the default settings in System Preferences > Dock is [√] Double-click a window's title bar to zoom; however by default, e.g., Finder does not have a keyboard shortcut to zoom a window.
One may add a keyboard shortcut for the Finder > Window > Zoom command in System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts, as shown in the image below.
Note that one can also choose All Application and use the following as the menu title,
e.g. Window->Zoom so as not to confuse it with another Zoom command elsewhere in its menu system if applicable.
Have a look at: Create keyboard shortcuts for apps on Mac
Click the [+] and fill in the sheet, then click the Add button:
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The previous answers do work, of course. The problem is that sometimes maximizing the window isn't the same as having the window full-sized on your desktop.
There is an app on the Mac App Store called "Magnet" (https://apps.apple.com/at/app/magnet/id441258766?mt=12) which does this job perfectly and you can even customize the shortcuts.
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Mac keyboard shortcuts - Apple Support
1 week ago - Click Keyboard Shortcuts, select Keyboard on the left, then select the shortcut to enable it. Control-F2 or Fn-Control-F2: Move focus to the menu bar. You can then use the arrow keys to navigate the menu, press Return to open a selected menu or choose a selected menu item, or type the menu item's name to jump to that item in the selected menu. Control-F3 or Fn-Control-F3: Move focus to the Dock. Control-F4 or Fn-Control-F4: Move focus to the active window or next window.
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For example, to copy text (Ctrl + "C"), you would highlight the text and press and hold the "Ctrl" (or control) key on your keyboard, then tap the "C" key before releasing both keys. Open a recently closed tab in your internet broswer: Ctrl + Shift "T" ... Minimize ...
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March 5, 2023 - Decades ago, the MacOS has the ability to Minimize and then Maximize an application window with a keystroke (keyboard shortcut). This option still exist to minimize an application window by pressing ⌘M, but there’s no longer anyway to Maximize the window using a keyboard shortcut, that I’m aware of.
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July 14, 2020 - Then some other choices like Tiling Left and Right. So clicking this green button or selecting Enter Full Screen does the same thing. You can also go to View. Usually there's an Enter Full Screen command with a keyboard shortcut there. All of these will do the same thing. They take the window full screen.
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Keyboard shortcuts: minimize, maximize, s… - Apple Community
May 26, 2011 - a. What are the keyboard shortcuts for minimize, unminimize window. Typically in Win I would Alt-tab, and tab to the window I want to see. When I Cmd-tab and select, e.g., firefox, in Mac nothing happens. It seems the only way to unminimize from the dock is to use the mouse.
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You can combine the Hide All keyboard shortcut (Command+Option+H) which hides all windows except the currently active window with the Minimize Active Window keyboard shortcut (Command+Option+M) referenced above.To invoke this third ‘Minimize and Hide All’ shortcut press the Command+Option+H+M keys in Lion and Mountain Lion.But it is just as easy to double-click Mission Control on the Dock to the “Show Desktop” option and then restore the entire window layouts by double-clicking Mission Control on the Dock a second time.
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July 2, 2019 - If you mean fullscreen, it's command+control+f. It you mean window zoom, there isn't a default but one can manually be added in Keyboard System Preferences. There you can add shortcuts for anything accessible through the menu bar actually. Maximise as a window management function isn't a default behaviour available in macOS
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r/MacOS on Reddit: Need hotkey to minimize/maximize my task app
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Just like command + tab, but to a specific app only.
Like, press F2 to minimize/maximize my task app.
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CMD+M is the conventional hotkey for minimizing the foremost window. Most macOS apps follow this convention. If you just want an alternative hotkey when the app is working in foreground, you can use BetterTouchTool to create an app specific hotkey that equivalent to CMD+M. If you want a global hotkey that minimize one specific app when you're working in another app, that would be complex. Suppose that app has only one window, you can use AppleScript to send CMD+M keystroke event to that application, and make that script a "Service" in Automator and install it. Then you can assign a global hot key to that service in System Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Service. Send keystroke in AppleScript: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65480144/sending-keystrokes-in-applescript-via-automator-in-any-application Making a systemwide service in Automator: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/LanguagesUtilities/Conceptual/MacAutomationScriptingGuide/MakeaSystem-WideService.html
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option + command + h
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Move and arrange app windows on Mac - Apple Support (CA)
Maximize a window: Hold the pointer over the green button in the top-left corner of an app window, then click below Fill & Arrange, or press Fn-Control-F.