Unable to exit full screen

You have to be actually playing a track with Visualizer showing before you can go full screen. Once in it Esc will get you out of it.

Not true. You can enter full screen whenever you want ...... but getting out again ?.

Move the cursor up to the very top of the screen and the menu bar will appear and you can use the View menu ..... or, remeber the keybaord command. 🙂

Message was edited by: kilima

If we are talking about a music track then you have to be playing it and running the Visualizer, or the menu item greyed out since there is nothing to display. Of course if you are running a movie then there is something to display and the menu item won't be greyed out. Control-command-F will get you in and out of full screen: Escape will get you out of Visualizer as well.

I'm sorry, but in my iTunes 11.0.1, I can go into Full Screen anytime, and from anywhere. Track playing, track not playing, Songs view, Artists view, Albums, Playlists, even Radio. Side Bar showing, Side Bar Hidden .... etc.

That definitely isn't my experience. With iTunes showing the music folder and nothing happening the menu item is greyed out and the keystroke does nothing. I imagine the reason for this is that we are talking about two slightly different things: I'm on Snow Leopard. I believe in Mountain Lion there is an option to expand applications to full screen and that's probably what you're seeing.

That's definitely it Roger. Full screen for applications came with Mountain Lion. It didn't occur to me you were on Snow Leopard. 🙂

I am on 10.6.8 macbook with an external monitor. Once I entered full screen itunes 11 vizualizer I have not been able get out. I've thouroughly explored every possibility discussed here.... and I still can't get out.

help

What happens if you hit 'Escape'?

Escape takes me out of vizualizer completely. However I cannot go back into the v mode without it being full screen. (Same as initial post - unable to get exit full screen to highlight in view menu).

I just checked, and yes, if you hit escape it quits the visualizer, as does command-T, then if you re-enable the visualizer it comes back full screen. However then hitting control-command-f takes the visualizer back to normal size.

Command Ctrl F (you can see that under the menu in the first post) will Exit or Enter Full Screen on Apple OS X Mavericks (and a few versions earlier) in all applications. If you hit the new double arrows at the upper-right corner of any application window you need to use Command Ctrl F.... Roger actually answered this early on, but it behaves differently if you use the visualizer.

Steps

1. Make sure you aren't in the visualizer by hitting Esc or Command T (toggle the visualizer in iTunes off or on)
2. Try hitting Command Ctrl F once or twice in the main iTunes window, to see it enter or exit Full screen mode

Note: If the visualizer is on Command Ctrl F takes you out of Full Screen for the visualizer only, not for the iTunes window. You have to exit the Visualizer with ESC or Command T before you hit Command Ctrl F. Try that shortcut in any Mac application: Safari, Chrome, etc. and you will see it hide your menu bars and go to full screen, hitting Command Ctrl F again will bring your menus back.

This "Full Screen Mode" is the worst UI change I have ever experienced. There is no clear means by which one can exit this mode.

A word of advise to Apple: "Quit with all this F-ING Microsoft conversion stuff!" This is not the 'Intuitive' UI that has always been the 'Hallmark' of

Apple/Macintosh design. "IF I WANTED AN MS/WINBLOWS EXPERIENCE I WOULD HAVE BOUGHT A WINBLOWS MACHINE!"

Did you find an answer on how to exit full screen mode in iTunes for Yosemite?

Try Control-Command-f

Thank you so very much.