Make exiting of fullscreen mode more obvious

22 votes

As I user I want to be able to exit fullscreen mode in an easy way.

For some context. I got stuck in fullscreen mode and could not find a way out as there is no menu bar and the hotkeys I expected to work did not do anything. I had to search the internet and Stack Overflow helped me in the end about the shortcut CRTL+SHIFT+F. I had used that shortcut to fullscreen my remote session as that software uses the same keys, but did not realize that was the reason GitKraken got into fullscreen.

I tried these ways to get out of fullscreen mode:

* Looked for some "exit fullscreen" button/thing
* Press ALT (hoping it would bring up the menu bar)
* F11 (as used often for fullscreen)
* F10 (sometimes used to focus menu bar)
* Escape (I wanted to get out)
* Exiting and restarting GitKraken (restarts back into fullscreen mode)

This was on Ubuntu 20.04 maybe it is OS related.

Under consideration Suggested by: Michel (14 Sep, '21) • Upvoted: 14 Feb • Comments: 5

Comments: 5

19 Sep, '21
Vladislav Javadov
F11 is best choice.
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16 May, '22
Jonathan Lane
Thank you for posting this I was losing my mind trying to get out of it, thought there was a bug.
1
25 Apr, '23
Kevin Walton
Yes please
24 Jul, '23
Aart
Fully agree, same problem here. Just make it F11 I'd say. Also, why does it have a fullscreen mode at all? :)
04 Oct, '23
Dave
Another upvote to either support F11 (why does this NOT already work this way? It's the universal shortkey for this) or make it much more obvious how to undo this when it happens. I didn't KNOWINGLY enable full screen mode and it's a little crazy the ONLY way I could figure it out was - like someone above - I had to Google for it, which is how I got here via deep link.

I know this isn't a breaking issue but..... can't be hard to sneak this in as a QoL update, right? Pretty please? :D
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