Green traffic light button ‘plus’ sign?

[Aerofly]

Hi, I’m a noob to the Mac, I have an M2 MacBook Air and I’m more used to the iPad. I seem to have somehow replaced the two diagonal arrowheads in the green traffic light button on my ‘Settings’ window with a ‘+’, and have no idea how or what it does. Can someone please explain what I’ve done, and how to correct it. Thanks

 

[HDFan]

Can you post a screenshot?

 

[Bigwaff]

Hi, I’m a noob to the Mac, I have an M2 MacBook Air and I’m more used to the iPad. I seem to have somehow replaced the two diagonal arrowheads in the green traffic light button on my ‘Settings’ window with a ‘+’, and have no idea how or what it does. Can someone please explain what I’ve done, and how to correct it. Thanks

Sounds like you have Sonoma installed

Move and arrange app windows on Mac

On your Mac, align, merge, resize, switch between, and close one or more app windows.

support.apple.com

 

[Aerofly]

Can you post a screenshot?

I had to take a photo of the screen rather than a screenshot, as a screenshot blanked out the ‘traffic light’ buttons…….

I should also add I’m using Seqouia 15.0.1

 

[raythompsontn]

replaced the two diagonal arrowheads in the green traffic light button on my ‘Settings’ window with a ‘+’,

That seems to be normal. Application windows have the diagonal arrows, the system settings dialog has the '+'. This is probably because one is an application window that can be minimized or maximized, the settings is just a dialog box that really cannot be maximized to full screen, just expanded. You didn't do anything.

The arrows are for going full screen. The '+' is just for expanding.

 

[Aerofly]

That seems to be normal. Application windows have the diagonal arrows, the system settings dialog has the '+'. This is probably because one is an application window that can be minimized or maximized, the settings is just a dialog box that really cannot be maximized to full screen, just expanded. You didn't do anything.

The arrows are for going full screen. The '+' is just for expanding.

Thanks for the reply, I just didn’t realise that the System Settings had always had the ‘+’. At least I now know I didn’t change it accidentally. Cheers for setting me straight.

 

[HDFan]

Ah, now I see. The characters appear when you hit the green full screen button. Disappear when you minimize.