Stuck in full screen mode

[geoffl18657010]

My Lightroom Classic is stuck in full screen. I cannot access the three buttons in the top left to reduce it. I tried the usual; restart but no change. Please advise, Thanks.

iMac-macOS Monteray with latest downloads.

[Jim Wilde · Accepted solution]

Try using the Shift+F key combination once or twice (it toggles between the normal display and a couple of different full-screen displays).

[geoffl18657010]

Someone buy that man a beer! Many thanks Jim! 

[karstenb45005049]

I have the same trouble not seeing the three buttons on the top left. 

Shift+F key combination does not work

Any idea?

[fred34240150p8cz]

Me too - using Dell XPS+ 13 Windows 11 --- Frequently full screen using F gets stuck when I zoom in or out so that Shift-F repeated or otherwise, fails to return to normal no combination of keys seem to work just the message appears in slightly different locations  saying Press Shift-F for Normal View or some such. Only way to exist appears to be to call task manager and kill Lightroom. Frustrating. 

[Per Berntsen]

There are several ways to get out of full screen mode.

You can press F, Shift+F, Escape, or G. You can also press R, which will take you Crop in normal screen mode.

[fred34240150p8cz]

I've had this issue quite a few times now and the shortcut keys you
mention, or indeed any other keyboard combination do not seem to work. I'm
still able to advance to the next photo via the arrow key but other keys
apparently do nothing for example i'm unable to tag the photos in any way,
or use the esc key, or F to return etc. Taskmanager via control alt del
does allow me to end the lightroom task. The problem seems to arise when
the program is doing some other task and i go into full screen mode via the
F key, and use the arrow key to quickly to advance through the photos.

[Per Berntsen]

Try resetting the preferences.

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/setting-preferences-lightroom.html

[amcd53]

I have the same problem. Somehow LRC went into dark mode and full screen. It seems frozen.  Checking the normal box makes no difference. All key combinations don't have any effect. Restarting LRC and MAC makes no difference. I'm running LRC 13.3.1. Any ideas greatly appreciated.