Stop automatic minimizing windows?

My calculator opens and runs on top of my Safari web page. Does yours not do this?

Your post is confusing because your topic says 'stop automatic minimizing windows' but your problem description doesn't sound like the calculator app is minimizing at all. It's just not on top.

Do you want the calculator to be a floating window that never goes to the background, even when you have another app active?

Hi Sarah,
welcome to Discussions!

The best Mac OS X way I'd recommend, is to first set Exposé hot corners, especially the "All Windows" one, then another hot corner for "Desktop" is very handy too.
With Exposé alone, mouse-toggling between open applications is just natural, easy and takes no time, back and forth and switching and back-to-front and to-background etc, amongst all open applications you're using
(and you know you can keep many of them permanently open, no need to ever quit them).

If you prefer keyboard toggling,
of course you can set Exposé to F keystrokes for example,
but you can also use a very useful feature called Application Switcher
(command helddown + tab)
which makes it very easy to toggle between, say, Calculator and Firefox, because it always keeps the latest app that was in use, as the next option available without having to press Tab-tab-tab again
(or without having to arrow-right nor mouse-hover on the Application Switcher icons).

Enjoy your new Mac!

Spaces does allow you to have two windows open in the same space, but you have to move both windows to the same space. You can do that with the Spaces menu, the Spaces preferences, or just drag and drop (Exposé helps with this immensely).

Nope, that is the way it is.

Have them next to each other instead. 🙂

I'm not sure I even get the question... The active application is always in the foreground. WIndoze does that too... Why wouldn't you want it to do that?