#Istat menus tnt windows

If you press the X it will not close the app, but only the current window from the app.Īlso when Command+Tab'ing, you can press Q with an app selected to close it. To truly quit an app, use ⌘ + Q, or go to the Menu Bar -> AppName -> Quit You'll see it in the Menu Bar when it's open like that and active.

#Istat menus tnt windows

You can also press ⌘ + ` to quickly switch between windows of the same App.Īlso, remember that you can have an app open with no windows. You can also use a trackpad gesture for it, I recommend not to be scared of the trackpad, it's superior to any Windows machine I ever touched, and the gestures are very efficient. When in an app, you can press ⌃ (Control) + ↓ which opens App Expose, which shows you all the windows the app has. So you can either ⌘ + Tab, then keep pressing ⌘ and press ↓ (Arrow Down). But an Application can have more windows (imagine opening a new Window in Chrome), and you won't see it separate in the list. On Mac, Alt+Tab-ing is actually ⌘ (Command) + Tab and it shows only current applications. I feel this is the most confusing part for someone coming from Windows. One app that helped me a lot is Rectangle, I missed the quick Snap up to make the fullscreen feature work everywhere, including in Finder. The window management can be a bit frustrating until you learn the shortcuts. When moving from Windows, macOS is quite different, but not so much not to understand it.

Window Management when coming from Windows.

Right now I'm writing this post for other people that might be in the same situation, and learn from my newbie to MacBook in 2022 experience, or maybe get corrected myself. But as my gaming laptop broke, right before the warranty ended, which is the same experience I had with the gaming laptop I owned before, and after reading some exciting reviews about M1, I decided to move to Apple. Until one month ago, I never used a MacBook. I like to do some gaming, watching series, and photography with its software, recently started learning Blender.

I'm proficient in Windows use, some programming/scripting, and some Linux distributions on x86 computers.