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  • Introduction
    • Introducing Sally
    • Using Help
    • System Requirements
    • License Agreement
    • Technical Support
    • What's New in This Release
  • Window Components
    • Main Window Components
    • Menu Bar
    • Top Toolbar
    • Plugin Bar
    • User Menu Bar
    • Hot Path Bar
    • Drive Bar
    • Middle Toolbar
    • Split Bar
    • Panel
      • Panel Components
      • Directory Line
      • Header Line
      • Working Area
      • Information Line
    • Command Line
    • Bottom Toolbar
    • Window Menu
    • Minimize, Maximize, and Close Buttons
  • Using Sally
    • Working with Windows and Panels
      • Activating Panel
      • Focusing Item
      • Activating Command Line
      • Selecting Current View
      • Choosing Visible Columns
      • Setting Column Width
      • Setting Visibility of Window Components
      • Setting Visibility of Panel Components
      • Setting Panel Width
      • Maximizing and Restoring Panel
      • Swapping Panels
      • Setting Window Always on Top
      • Common Shortcut Keys
    • Navigating Through Directories
      • Changing Directory
      • Changing Directory in Other Panel
      • Change Drive Menu
      • Using Hot Paths
      • Opening Directory You've Worked In Recently
      • Restoring Network Connections
    • Basic Working with Files and Directories
      • Sorting Panel Contents
      • Selecting Files and Directories
      • Quick Searching File or Directory Name
      • Copying Files and Directories
      • Moving or Renaming Files and Directories
      • Deleting Files and Directories
      • Creating a Directory
      • Viewing File
      • Editing File
      • Opening Archive Files
      • Packing Files and Directories
      • Unpacking Archive File
      • Finding Files and Directories
      • Starting Application or Opening Document
      • Opening Plugin File Systems
    • Advanced Working with Files and Directories
      • Emailing Files
      • Saving and Loading Selection
      • Using Clipboard to Perform File and Directory Operations
      • Copying File or Directory Name to Clipboard
      • Opening File You've Used Recently
      • Changing the Name of File or Directory
      • Changing Attributes of Files and Directories
      • Compressing and Encrypting of Files and Directories
      • Changing Name Case of Files and Directories
      • Converting Contents of Text Files
      • Calculating Occupied Space
      • Calculating Directory Sizes
      • Comparing Directories
      • Making List of Files and Directories
      • Opening Properties of Files and Directories
      • Creating New Object
      • Finding Duplicate Files
      • Finding Shortcut or Link Target
      • Displaying Shared Directories
      • Limiting the Files and Directories to Display
      • Highlighting Groups of Files and Directories
      • Refreshing Panel
      • Rereading Associations
      • Using User Menu
    • Using Internal Viewer
      • Introduction to Internal Viewer
      • Finding Text
      • Copying Text to Clipboard
      • Selecting Text
      • Changing View Mode
      • Opening Previous or Next File from Panel or Find Window
      • Drag & Drop
      • Text Wrapping
      • Converting Text
      • Copying Text to File
      • Viewing in Full Screen
      • Opening File
      • Reloading File
    • Working with Disks
      • Formatting Disk
      • Labeling Disk
      • Displaying Drive Information
      • Connecting to and Disconnecting from a Network Drive
    • Securing Files and Directories
      • Setting Files and Directories Permissions
    • Using Plugins
      • Managing Plugins
      • Using Plugins
      • Configuring Plugins
    • Customizing Sally
      • Configuring Sally
      • Setting User's Skill Level
      • Customizing Toolbars
      • Customizing Plugin Bar
      • Customizing User Menu
      • Archivers Autoconfiguration
    • Other Tasks
      • Working with Command Line
      • Opening System Folder
      • Opening Command Shell
      • Using Password Manager
      • Displaying About Dialog Boxes
      • Accessing Help
      • Using Sally Task List
      • Starting Sally with Parameters
      • Exiting Sally
  • Dialog Boxes
    • Configuration
      • Appearance
      • Archivers
      • Archives Associations in Panels
      • Change Drive Menu and Drive Bar
      • Colors
      • Confirmations
      • Drives
      • Editors
      • External Archivers Locations
      • General
      • History
      • Hot Paths
      • Security
      • Icon Overlays
      • Internal Viewer
      • Keyboard
      • Main Window
      • Packers in Pack Dialog
      • Panels
      • Language
      • Recycle Bin
      • Unpackers in Unpack Dialog
      • User Menu
      • Viewers
      • Views
    • Find
      • Advanced Options
      • Find
      • Find Duplicate Files
      • Find Log
      • Ignore Directory List
      • Settings Manager
    • Internal Viewer
      • Find Dialog
      • Go To Offset Dialog
    • Password Manager
      • Enter Master Password
      • Change Master Password
      • Remove Master Password
    • Sally Task List
    • Archive Update
    • Archivers Autoconfiguration
    • Archivers Autoconfiguration Drives
    • Calculate Occupied Space
    • Change Attributes
    • Change Case
    • Choose Directories to Compare
    • Change Directory
    • Change Icon
    • Choose Files to Compare
    • Code Page Conversion Tables
    • Compare Directories
    • Connect to Network Path
    • Convert
    • Copy
    • Create Directory
    • Customize Toolbar
    • Disconnect
    • Drive Information
    • Edit New File
    • Filter
    • Load Selection
    • Make File List
    • Move/Rename
    • Pack
    • Plugin Keyboard Shortcuts
    • Plugins Manager
    • Quick Rename
    • Save Selection
    • Select
    • Set Speed Limit
    • Shared Directories
    • Unpack
    • Unselect
    • User's Skill Level
  • Shortcuts
    • Keyboard Shortcuts
    • Mouse Shortcuts
    • Shortcut Menus
  • Plugins
    • Plugins Concepts
    • 7-ZIP
    • Automation
    • Checksum
    • Check Version
    • Database Viewer
    • DiskMap
    • File Comparator
    • FTP Client
    • Web Viewer
    • Multimedia Viewer
    • Network
    • Quake PAK
    • Portable Executable Viewer
    • Registry Editor
    • Renamer
    • Split & Combine
    • TAR
    • UnARJ
    • UnCAB
    • UnCHM
    • Undelete
    • UnFAT
    • UnISO
    • UnLHA
    • UnMIME
    • UnRAR
    • Windows Mobile
    • ZIP
  • Appendix
    • File and Directory Concepts
      • Understanding Files and Directories
      • File Systems
      • Naming a File or Directory
      • Disk Path Specifier
      • File and Directory Attributes
      • File and Directory Times
      • Text Files Coding and End of Line Characters
      • Wildcard Characters
      • File Masks
      • Operation Masks
      • Archive Path Specifier
      • Plugin File System Path Specifier
    • Regular Expressions Syntax
    • Group Policy Restriction
    • Unicode Support
  • Glossary
    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    • E
    • F
    • G
    • H
    • I
    • J
    • K
    • L
    • M
    • N
    • O
    • P
    • Q
    • R
    • S
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Manual › Window Components

Minimize, Maximize, and Close Buttons

Use these buttons to minimize, maximize (or restore if already maximized), or close the main window. You can find these buttons in the upper right corner of the main window, see Main Window Components.

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From the Sally manual (GPL-2.0-or-later), © 1997-2023 Open Salamander Authors; © 2025-2026 Elias Bachaalany. Source: manual source (zip) · original page in the Sally repository

Sally

A fast, keyboard-first dual-panel file manager for Windows. Free software under the GNU GPL, based on Open Salamander.

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