If I want to go back to my local desktkop, I have to click 'minimize window' button. Once I'm done on local and want to switch back to remote desktop, I need to switch the the browser that has logmein session open, and click 'switch to full screen mode' again. Entering Full Screen Mode in Mac OS X with the Green Maximize Button. The green maximize button in the upper left corner of a Mac window will enter that window or application into full screen mode. If you click on that button, you’ll see a transition animation and be in full screen mode, and the window titlebar disappears.
When you're using a Web browser, reading your email or working on a company project in an application, you want to view the window that contains your files at full-screen size to show as much as possible without scrolling. Sometimes, however, you want to move an application window out of your way without switching to the Finder or another application. When you minimize a full-screen window, it vanishes and places an icon in the Dock to the right of the divider that separates applications from documents.
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Neither the application in which you're working nor the window that contains your work quits or closes. Tips. Hold down the 'Shift' key while you click on a document's minimize button or the Dock icon for a minimized document. The window vanishes and appears in animated slow motion. Open the Apple menu; choose the 'Dock' fly-out menu and select 'Dock Preferences' to access the Dock pane within your System Preferences.
Set the 'Minimize Using' drop-down menu to 'Scale Effect' to make your application and Finder windows reduce in size as they vanish. Choose 'Genie Effect' to make windows swoop out of sight when you minimize them.
Use the Mission Control key - the F3 key - in the top row of your keyboard to show all the windows, minimized or not, from all your currently running applications. Click on one of the windows to make it visible. Use the F9 key on keyboards with no dedicated Mission Control key. If you'd prefer to minimize a window by double-clicking on its title bar, open your System Preferences, click on the 'General' icon in the Personal row and activate the check box in front of the item for minimizing when double-clicking a title bar.