akweteco01: Take charge of the maximize button in iTunes

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Take charge of the maximize button in iTunes

Unlike every other application, the default behavior when clicking the maximize button in iTunes switches the window to miniplayer view. This can be frustrating when you're actually trying to maximize the window view.

Unlike every other application, the default behavior when clicking the maximize button in iTunes switches the window to miniplayer view. This can be frustrating when you're actually trying to maximize the window view.

The window menu reveals the shortcut of Command+Control+Z to switch between minimized and maximized views (listed as 'Zoom' in the menu), but I've found Option+clicking the green maximize button has the same function.

[crarko adds: This behavior seems to change with each major revision to iTunes, and we've run similar hints for earlier versions. This hint talks about how to do this with iTunes 9, and the Option+click trick is mentioned in the com ...