How do I remove iTunes as a desktop in Mission Control?

December 23, 2014 6:36 PM

How do I remove iTunes as a desktop in Mission Control?

This is embarrassing. Yet somehow I accidentally hit a hotkey combination and iTunes disappeared into its own desktop within Mission Control. Worse, there is no "X" option when you hover it. I like using one desktop and being able to toggle iTunes without triggering Mission Control first.

Is there a way around this? I'm using Yosemite.

posted by deern the headlice to Computers & Internet (6 answers total)

Best answer: Sounds like you fullscreen'd it by accident. If so, you can go into iTunes (from Mission Control, or via the dock) and hover your mouse near the top of the screen. The usual top window bar should appear; hit the green stoplight button and that should put it back into normal windowed mode.
posted by dorque at 6:45 PM on December 23, 2014 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: Gah! I would not have figured that out. There's a long delay too when you hover up there and it was definitely not intuitive to me anyway - thanks dorque!
posted by deern the headlice at 6:48 PM on December 23, 2014

I think hitting the escape key usually also makes an app go back into windowed mode.
posted by brentajones at 8:29 PM on December 23, 2014

Also dragging three fingers up on the touchpad brings up the control of fullscreen windows.
posted by nickggully at 9:31 PM on December 23, 2014

For anyone looking at this question later, on my system (10.10.1), neither of the above is true for iTunes. The escape key is variable -- I spot-checked four or five other apps that I happened to have open and only Apple Mail responded to the escape key. The three-finger upward swipe brings up Mission Control, where fullscreen windows appear as their own desktops, which is where OP started out.
posted by dorque at 5:03 AM on December 24, 2014

For future googlers, the quickest solution is to use ^+⌘+F (Control+Cmd+F) to toggle fullscreen mode, which is fairly standard across most apps.
posted by ArkhanJG at 6:51 AM on December 24, 2014 [1 favorite]