Quick Start Guide
3.2.2 Manage Window
After you start an application, GNOME automatically switches back to the workplace.
The name of the program and its icon appear in the panel. You can end the application
by clicking on it. The X on the title bar of its window does the same thing.
Procedure 3.1: Maximize Window
To enlarge a window to the screen size, proceed as follows:
1 Bring the mouse to the title bar of the window (with the program name) and
hold and press the left mouse button.
2 Pull the window on the top edge against the panel.
3 As soon as GNOME turns the screen blue, let the mouse button go.
To minimize the window again, follow the same steps but vice versa: Using the mouse,
pull away the title bar of the window from the top edge. Alternatively, you can also
right-click on the title bar. A menu with the corresponding options then appears. But
beware: Dierently from other operating systems, Minimizing the window changes
to Activities view.
You can switch quickly between open windows via the [Ctrl] + [Tab]shortcut. Activities
view gives an overview of all currently open windows. You may need to rst click to
the Window area. Clicking on one of the windows brings it into the foreground, the
X symbol closes it.
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