Coming back to RoomCaddie

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

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 RoomCaddie is watching, 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 What should the home screen do?, choose one of the three ways a tile ends.

Setting	Where	What it does	Default
What should the home screen do?	The editor, on a tile	Come back when GSPro closes uses your main program's name. The home screen returns when you exit that program from its own screen. With Wait for me to bring it back, you bring the home screen back with the phone remote or Ctrl+Alt+S. With Stay on screen behind the tool, a tool such as volume settings opens over the home screen.	Set when you create the tile. It comes back automatically if RoomCaddie recognizes its main program. Otherwise, it stays until you come back. Tiles for Windows tools, such as WINDOWS, start on Stay on screen behind the tool.

• Coming back never closes anything, even a program set to Close it too on its card. That program closes only when your main program closes, as explained in the Tiles and the editor chapter. 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 brings you back automatically only when its program closes while in front. If the program closes in the background, it simply leaves the bar.
• Come back when GSPro closes uses your main program's name and 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 — the Return shortcut 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, tap its tile again to bring it to the front.

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 when 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.