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Wait a second.....(minimize problem)
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Join Date: Jul 2003
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At times, and I can't reproduce the issue, the minimize button (yellow in the middle) gets greyed out so that I can't minimize a window. Really, I don't know why it happens, but it does occur at least once a week. A restart fixes the problem, but quitting the app doesn't. Also, it affects all programs, not just one. Oh, and apple-m doesn't work either.
Any ideas why this would happen? THUNKS!
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Join Date: Nov 2005
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Just out of curiosity, do you play any full-screen games? I've noticed that the opensource BZFlag has the same effect when run fullscreen.
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Join Date: Apr 2004
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This happens to me occasionally, and I filed a bug report ages ago.
As TheoCryst notes, it seems to happen more after playing games. It used to always happen after I played World of Warcraft, for example.
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Well for the inverse, I don't play games on my MacPro and never saw the issue the OP is describing.
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Michael
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Usually happens when there is something weird with the connection between the app in question and Dock.app. Quit the app, then the Dock (which relaunches directly) and then launch the app again, that should do it.
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hmm...I did try a game out the other night that went fullscreen, so maybe that was the cause.
For the record, it was SuperTux, and it sucked.
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OmniWeb just did this for me and I don't play games.
I can't minimize the window but I created a new window and that one can minimize just fine. very weird..
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Join Date: Sep 2006
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Happens to me with Mail and Safari... seems utterly random... drives me nuts. I also can't stand when the mouse cursor gets stuck (like showing the I-bar when it should be an arrow). Come on now.. Windows never seems to have this trouble... but it happens all the time in OS X.
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Wasn't there something about this a while ago with using an old divx plugin?
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Another potential culprit, if it isn't a Quicktime or other plug-in, would be Windowshade X if people are using it.
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