• Moving, resizing and scrolling
• Moving to front or back
• Menus
• Opening, closing and quitting windows

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Moving, resizing and scrolling

To MOVE a window, hold down SELECT on the title bar and drag. Icons can also be moved in the same way.

To RESIZE a window, hold down SELECT on a corner bracket and drag.

There are several ways to SCROLL through a window:

Moving to front or back

To move a window or icon to the front of overlapping window, click SELECT on the title bar of the window you wish to be in front.

To move a window or icon to the back of overlapping windows, either

click SELECT on the title bar of the other windows you wish to be in front
OR
hold down MENU on the title bar or icon and choose 'Lower' from the Window menu.

Popup menus

Depending on where the cursor is in a window, pressing the MENU (right) button will get you different menus that let you do things with the window. Holding down the MENU buttton will cause the menu to pop up, and disappear when the button is released. Clicking with the MENU button will cause the menu to stay on the screen until a selection is made.

• press MENU the on the Title bar to get the Window menu. The window menu has commands for opening and closing windows, moving, resizing and quitting the window. If you press MENU on an icon, the Window menu for the iconized window will also pop up. You can also make the window appear in all desktop (Occupy All Workspaces), or move it to a different desktop (Occupy Workspace).
• press MENU in the main part of the window. In the example above, pressing MENU in a Terminal window opens a Terminal popup. Window lets you open or close the window. Edit lets you cut or paste text. Options lets you change aspects of how the window is displayed.

Closing a window means that the window disappears and is replaced by an icon. Quitting means that the process running in the window is terminated, and the window disappears.

To close a window, hold the MENU button over the header bar and choose Minimize
OR
Click on the small "minimize" button (dot) in the upper right hand corner of the window.
OR
if you have a Sun keyboard, place the cursor anywhere over the window and press the 'Open' buttton.

To open an iconized window, click twice in rapid succession on the icon

OR
hold the MENU button over the icon and choose Restore
OR
if you have a Sun keyboard, place the cursor anywhere over the icon and press the 'Open' buttton.

To make a window take up the entire screen, hold the MENU button over the title bar and choose 'Maximize'

OR
click on the 'Maximize' button (square) in the upper right hand corner of the window.

To quit a window, hold the MENU button over the header bar or icon and choose Window -> Close

Note, if you are running a program that has an internal Quit option (eg. in the File menu), use that one, rather than quitting from the title bar. The reason is that programs often need to do some tidying up when terminating, such as deleting temporary files. Quitting from the header bar may prevent those tasks from being done.