Another shortcut for minimizing a Cocoa app's window

Jun 11, '03 10:32:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

I'm pretty sure this works only in Cocoa apps, but if you have a two (or more) button mouse, and are using the Apple drivers rather than some third party mouse driver, you can minimise windows by clicking the left and right mouse buttons on the title bar simultaneously.

[robg adds: This seems to also work just fine with my Intellimouse running Microsoft's drivers. A friend with a MacAlly mouse, though, couldn't make it work. Perhaps in Cocoa apps with certain mice, the left- and right-buttons send a double-click when clicked at the same time? If so, that would explain the resulting minimize action. And yes, I know you can just double-click the title bar to minimize any window -- just consider this just another documented case of odd and/or interesting behavior...]

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