Arduino ide not working; minimize, Fullscreen, and close buttons covering options

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Unfortunately I don't know of any persistent workaround for the issue. However, it seems to only occur intermittently so hopefully you will only encounter it rarely (most users don't encounter it at all, but unfortunately some do and it is not clear why).

When it does occur, I think the solution you found of declining the reload will be effective. If you do still have problems after that, try closing the Arduino IDE window. Hopefully if you open the sketch again the problem won't occur and so you will be able to work around the problem in that fashion.