Mini Window pop out when you minimize

[Adminstrator]

It looks like Zoom has determined that the entire world is incorrect with the definition of "Minimize" and has taken it upon themselves to rewrite the definition, for their own purposes. When you click minimize and you expect it to, um, I don't know....MINIMIZE, it instead gives you a little useless window that has top focus above your other apps. 

Well, here is my personal opinion:  #FAIL

It's really just a bad idea.

How do I disable this annoying "feature"?

Please, for the love of God, just    MAKE.    IT.    GO.    AWAY.

[fdxygtgjrfyj]

It seems this awful feature can only be disabled on Linux, so Windows users are stuck with it.

On Linux:

Edit ~/.config/zoomus.conf and change the value enableMiniWindow=true to enableMiniWindow=false, and restart zoom.

[whatisthisextra]

This is a serious deficiency on Windows.  That stupid floating window is so beyond intrusive I can't believe there still isn't a way to disable this poorly designed behavior.

[olegarch]

This annoying "feature" affects not only direct Minimize action, but also it does break second-time click on taskbar program button.

For all windows programs this second click hides window (to background?), but for zoom window it does activates this annoying mini-view mode

[sarmad_orum]

It also doesn't work well with virtual workspaces (on Linux, not sure about Windows or Mac). You switch to another workspace to lookup something quickly, then you go back to the original workspace thinking you'll be back to zoom, but no, it's now gone and you don't know what the hell happened to your meeting. You'll have to go back to that other workspace to find the mini window, expand it and move it again to the workspace it should be on. It gets worse when someone asks you a question during the meeting and you need to quickly go back to the zoom window to unmute. Very stupid "feature" indeed.

[Anguished]

This behavior is awful. It makes Zoom harder and far more annoying to use. Harder because if you do manually hide the window, you will need to find it again to ever restore it to full size. Far more annoying because, as OP says, this is a flagrant breach of what minimizing means. Minimizing is OS-level, do-not-mess-with-this functionality. Users clearly ought to have a way to disable this and control their computer. But given how there's no option to have closing Zoom end Zoom's process—another flagrant breach of basic software expectations—it is obvious that the ones calling the shots do not care about the quality of their product.

[Anguished]

I forgot to mention: if you click the zoom app on the taskbar to minimize it and click again to activate it, it DOESN'T RESTORE. You are stuck with this awful small window. Clicking applications in the taskbar hides and restores them. Zoom breaks this foundational protocol in every possible way.

There is no justification. If this feature was a neighbor, it would push children over and hurl dog feces into people's yards. If this feature was a food, it would be dog feces you found in your yard. If this feature was an animal, it would be a dog in your yard, defecating. (Ok, more earnestly it would be a gnat flying in front of your eyes.)

I hope this isn't a breach of forum etiquette, but Zoom drew first blood with a flagrant breach of O.S. etiquette.