Coming back to RoomCaddie

What it does

When you start something from a tile, RoomCaddie moves out of the way. When you come back, the home screen returns to the front, and whatever you started keeps running behind it. A tile can also bring you back automatically when its main program closes.

Step by step

Come back with the keyboard

1. Press Ctrl+Alt+S to bring RoomCaddie and its home screen to the front.
2. To return to a program monitored by RoomCaddie, tap its name in the bar at the bottom of the home screen, or tap its tile.

Come back with the tray icon

1. Open the Windows notification area on the taskbar and right-click the RoomCaddie icon.
2. Choose "Return to RoomCaddie".

Come back by opening RoomCaddie again

1. While RoomCaddie is running, open it again from the Start menu or its desktop shortcut.
2. RoomCaddie brings the running copy to the front; it never opens a second copy.

Choose how a tile comes back

1. Open the editor and tap the tile.
2. Under While it's running, choose one of the three ways a tile ends.

Settings

Setting	Where	What it does	Default
While it's running	The editor, on a tile	"Come back to the home screen when" the main program closes; Stay until someone presses Home; or It's a quick panel — launch it and stay behind it.	Set when you create the tile: it comes back automatically if RoomCaddie recognises its main program; otherwise, it stays until you come back. Tiles for Windows tools, such as WINDOWS, start as quick panels.

Good to know

• Coming back never closes anything. To close a program, use END on the home screen's bar.
• When a tile brings you back automatically, the home screen says "Welcome back".
• A tile only brings you back automatically when its program closes while that program is in front. If the program closes in the background, it just leaves the bar.
• "Come back to the home screen when" needs a main program that RoomCaddie can watch; the Golf and the main program chapter explains how to mark one. RoomCaddie cannot watch websites or Store apps.
• If you press Ctrl+Alt+S on the home screen, you see a ring and the note "You're already home — this hotkey brings you back here from an activity".
• If another program already uses Ctrl+Alt+S, RoomCaddie uses Ctrl+Alt+B instead and tells you when it starts.
• Ctrl+Alt+Q is the emergency exit: it closes RoomCaddie instead of bringing you back.
• If a Store app is already open, tapping its tile again brings it to the front.

If something goes wrong

What you see	What to do
Ctrl+Alt+S does nothing while a game is loading	Some programs show their loading screen over everything for a few seconds. Press the shortcut again once the program is ready.
Ctrl+Alt+S does nothing while a game is running	Some games take full control of the keyboard in exclusive full-screen mode. Leave the game through its own menu, or use its settings to switch to a windowed or borderless mode.
"No keyboard Return shortcut could be set up"	Choose "Return to RoomCaddie" from the tray icon, or open RoomCaddie again from the Start menu.
"Your Return shortcut … wasn't available, so RoomCaddie set up" another key	Use the key named in the message. It brings you back the same way.
"RoomCaddie's tray icon couldn't be created."	The keyboard shortcut still works. Restart RoomCaddie to try creating the icon again.
"Couldn't bring … forward — Alt-Tab to it"	The program did not come to the front when you tapped it. Hold Alt and press Tab to switch to it.