Accidentally hit "toggle full screen", How do I exit?

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I'm stuck in full screen in the node editor. Escape isn't working, and I have no menus and no idea how to leave except to quit Blender and reopen the program.

Ctrl + Alt + Space worked for me on OSX – Zoe Erik Feb 04 '22 at 17:22 — Zoe Erik, Feb 04 '22 at 17:22

score 50 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 06 '19 at 03:56

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To toggle out of full screen area (what I think you did) press AltF10, or move your mouse to the top right corner and click the button that appears.
Here I start in full screen area, notice the button that appears in the top right corner. animated gif showing button to exit full screen area

If you just maximized the window you can get back to the normal view a number of ways.

Click the "Back To Previous" button in the info window at the top.
Press CtrlUp Arrow
Press CtrlDown Arrow
Press ShiftSpace

If you toggled blender into full screen view press AltF11.

Update For blender 2.8 the shortcuts are

⎈ Ctrl + Spacebar to toggle maximize

or

⎈ Ctrl + ⎇ Alt + Spacebar to toggle Full Screen.

edited Jul 06 '19 at 03:56

answered Jun 16 '16 at 02:53

David

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Yup, it was Alt+F10 indeed :) Thanks for the extra info too. That's helpful. – iCephalopod Jun 16 '16 at 03:10
Life savior (on MacOSX) – Vincent Oct 16 '17 at 12:25
Alt+f10 always escapes me. Best fullscreen mode for sculpting. Thank you for the comprehensive list! – Thomas Pendergrass Jan 14 '18 at 02:13
Another solution: Press F3 and search after "Toggle" and you'll find "Toggle Fullscreen Area" – telephone Jul 31 '22 at 22:38

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 09 '20 at 22:32

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On Mac none of the above worked, I got it toggling on and off with Ctrl + Alt + Fn + Space.

edited Oct 09 '20 at 22:32

Duarte Farrajota Ramos

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Ctrl + Space or Ctrl + Alt + Space works on OSX. – brockmann Jun 17 '20 at 10:41
...but on my Blender 3.0 I must use Cmd instead: Cmd + Alt + Fn + Space. – telephone Jul 31 '22 at 22:35

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 16 '16 at 02:52

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You should be able to toggle panel full screen mode in blender via Shift+Space :)

answered Jun 16 '16 at 02:52

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Thanks for a quick response :) but shift+space didn't seem to do anything and I wound up quitting and reopening Blender - it looks like alt+fn+F10 will toggle both in and out of full screen node editor on a Mac laptop. Sorry for the complete noobness... – iCephalopod Jun 16 '16 at 03:01

score 1 · Answer 4 · edited Jul 06 '19 at 09:44

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Press ALT+F11 to toggle Full Screen.

edited Jul 06 '19 at 09:44

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answered Jul 06 '19 at 03:10

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It's not Blender, that is in fullscreen mode, it's the Node Editor. F11 is the shortcut to UV/Image Editor. – metaphor_set Jul 06 '19 at 06:52
As the edit corrected the shortcut for toggle full screen is Alt F11 not F11 – David Jul 06 '19 at 09:47

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