Can't Minimize Lightroom 4 Window?

[nesotericsm1le]

I used to be able to minimize the Lightroom 4 window to the dock on my Mac, but now the minimize button's greyed out. I hit F a couple times and cycled through the different views but this hasn't restored the minimize function, neither has restarting Lightroom. Any suggestions on how to fix this?

[Brett N]

Is only the Minimize button grayed out? Do the Quit (red X) and Resize (Green +) still work correctly?

[pmsherman42]

I have the same issue with Win7 x64 I don't even see the Minimize, Maximize or X as well as I can't even grab the top bar and move it to the other monitor. It's like it's opened in some sort of Modal window. Of course this is the trial.

[dj_paige]

Press F once or twice

[nustart]

Brilliant - this has been annoying me for weeks !! cheers, Mike

[wks]

I have tried pressing F and see it change from full screen mode but am still not able to minimize the screen like I did previously and minimize is still greyed out.

[Victoria Bampton LR Queen]

wks, if pressing the F key once or twice isn't working, then we'll need to know your LR version, OS version and a screenshot would help too.

[wks]

Thanks Victoria!

LR 2.1

MAC 10.7.4

going to try restarting again

seems to work after restarting so not sure what the glitch is.

thanks!

[sdeleng]

same problem - but restarting does not work for me.

[Victoria Bampton LR Queen]

There appear to be 2 or 3 different problems in this thread - buttons missing altogether (press F once or twice), or buttons visible but not working.  So which problem are you having sdeleng, and which LR version and OS?

[sdeleng]

Hi,

Same as lady above mac 10.7.4 LR4 - could not minimize using speed keys or buttons. But it suddenly started to work again. Weird.

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[larryim2000]

Since downloading Lightroom 4.3 I have not been able to minimize either.  The green and red buttons are functional, but the yellow (minimize) is not.

I am using a mac mini with OSX 10.8.2.

[Brett N]

Does the OS keyboard shortcut to minimize work (Command+M)? Does it work when you attempt to minimize all windows (Command+Option+M)?

And WKS, are you really using LR2.1? Have you though about updating to the latest version (2.7)?

[wks]

I am on 4.2 and still have the problem intermittently. Just downloaded the latest version.

[larryim2000]

I didn't get the opportunity to try this before the problem corrected itself, at least temporarily.  I restarted the program a second time after posting this problem and strangely enough the yellow dot appeared again and it is still there. 

[Andrew Dyer · Accepted solution]

Hi. ---> Answer at bottom.

LR 5.0 / Mac OS X 10.8.4 / iMac 27"

The LR window is zoomed out, and I can't change the window size.

The Red, Yellow, Green buttons and the gray application top bar is missing.

CMD-M minimizes the window, but does not help change the window size.

I can't grab the top, left, right, bottom or corners of the window. The cursor does change, but I am unable to resize the window.

The menu option Window / Zoom does nothing.

once, twice works, but the top bar does not return.

Restarting the Mac does not help.

Relaunching LR does not help.

I quit all other applications.

When I activate Mission Control, I can see the red/yellow/green buttons and the gray top application bar.

As I was about to delete the preference files I tried this and it worked!

[shift] F

[Bob Newnham]

Thanks very much. I have never been able to do this before. Bob

[jude309]

Thanks for that, so easy when  you know how.

[wks]

Still having the problem of not being able to minimize Lightroom intermittently, but most of the time. Minimize is greyed out and command M does not work. Have to quit Lightroom to close the window.

Lightroom 4.3 on Mac Pro running 10.8.2. Restarting Mac does not solve the issue, nor does restarting Lightroom. Also tried relaunching the finder. Any other ideas? Thanks!

[Brett N]

Can you post a screen shot of what Lightroom looks like? Just curious to see why Minimize, of all things, is not available to you. I'm assuming that other applications minimize without issue.

[Victoria Bampton LR Queen]

Could there be a dialog open somewhere?  I've seen cases in the past where a second monitor was previously attached, a dialog was shown on that other monitor, and although the other monitor's detached, LR keeps trying to show it on the other screen.

[Brett N]

Good point Victoria. Although a dialog box being open should also prevent the use of the the Close (X) and Maximize , but I was thinking in same general direction.

[missyruns54]

I am also having this problem with the minimize (yellow) dot grayed out:

I cannot minimize the LR window at all, even from the Window menu:

The minimize choice is grayed out, but cmdM doesn't work either - like the entire function is disabled.  I'm on Mac OS X 10.8.3 and LR 4.4, Camera Raw 7.4.

Any ideas?  This is really annoying.

I tried to include screen shots, but they don't show up here.  Any help with that first?  DOH!

[missyruns54]

I am running LR on 2 machines, both with the same version of Mac OS X 10.8.3 and LR 4.4.   Minimize is disabled on one and not the other. 

Are there library files I could delete and have recreated upon startup?  If so, what are their names?

Should I reinstall LR completely? 

FYI, I was having a lot of trouble with this machine.  After many many many rounds with Apple support/geniuses, etc, we reinstalled the OS.   This was not a reformat and clean install, but just a reinstall over top of the current configuration.  The reinstall fixed the other problems I was having (iMovie).  I can't quite remember, but I think I had this problem before the reinstall.  Perhaps it was introduced by the OS reinstall.

Any suggestions?

[HarveyKo]

Go to Window>screen mode>normal.

I have been going crazy all afternoon on this.  Mine was stuck on a second monitor and I couldn't drag it back.

What a nightmare.