Comments on: Quickly Minimize Windows in Mac OS X with a Keyboard Shortcut or Double-Click

By: Puntre

Puntre — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 16:37:20 +0000

Took me a ridiculously long time to give up trying and search for this issue (10.8, couldn’t find double-click to minimize); time to get up and make some coffee. Thanks all for thread.

By: lewstherin

lewstherin — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:27:06 +0000

@Mario: Worked for me. Thank you so much!

@John: Switch to another program using cmd+tab first. Now switch back using cmd+tab holding it for a little time. You hold until your list of active programs pops up. Once your program comes into focus (a box appears around the icon), do as Alexey told you. Press the option key and then release the command key. Vioala!

By: kad

kad — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 07:11:18 +0000

it’s Under The Dock Preference Pane Now.

By: PeeWee

PeeWee — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 17:00:09 +0000

in 10.8 double click has been moved from General to Dock under system preferences, hope that helps.

By: John M.

John M. — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 10:38:00 +0000

It doesn’t work in Mountain Lion for me either. It was quite a search to find this thread, too! Are we the only ones who used double-click to minimize the Title Bar?

By: Bojan

Bojan — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 20:03:16 +0000

It doesn’t work for me at all. I can’t seem to find that option in general. I am running Mountain Lion.

By: Mario

Mario — Thu, 24 May 2012 19:03:40 +0000

First use CMD+Tab to give focus to the application, then press Option key without releasing CMD key. Then release CMD key while still holding Option key.

By: cassiofm

cassiofm — Tue, 22 May 2012 23:34:15 +0000

Doesn’t work for me either. I totally agree with John, wish there was a shortcut do undo it

By: John

John — Tue, 22 May 2012 14:44:51 +0000

Thanks for the tip Alexey.

Unfortunately for me the command + alt does not un-minimize windows on 2 iMacs i’ve tried this on. One running Lion and the other Leopard. I even checked in system prefs under keyboard>keyboard shortcuts to see if I could assign this myself but cannot.

By: Alexey

Alexey — Tue, 22 May 2012 06:19:40 +0000

Cmnd + Tab to choose application, Cmnd + Alt to un-minimize minimizes window!

By: Alexey

Alexey — Tue, 22 May 2012 05:39:48 +0000

Will be happy to know this too!

By: John

John — Tue, 22 May 2012 03:12:24 +0000

I meant single-click to re-expand, but you still need to use the mouse.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 22 May 2012 03:11:44 +0000

“Double-click a window’s title bar to minimize” does not work on Twitter.app for me. So far it is the only app that will not allow me to do so. Anyone else having this issue?

By: John

John — Tue, 22 May 2012 03:11:38 +0000

I like the keyboard shortcut command+m. I just wish there was a keyboard shortcut to bring the window back from the dock. This is the missing feature that has kept me from using command+m, since you need to double click the windows to re-expand them.

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:34 +0000

Agreed, window shading was great! It’s a shame no third party has come through with an implementation of that, it was genius in OS 8!