Calibre always starts in full screen

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

I get the opposite problem -- when I restart calibre with a clean config directory, I automatically get a non-full-screen calibre -- and it persists across restarts, naturally.

Windows 7 Pro.

Why is that a problem? calibre is supposed to start windowed by default. And in fact the main calibre window has no fullscreen (as opposed to maximized) mode.

OS X is a special snowflake where Apple decided to implement fullscreen mode as part of the windowing system for all applications, so individual applications cant control it. Most likely the OP's Mac is remembering the full screen mode for calibre and re-applying it every time. IIRC the way to get out of full screen mode is to use the green button in the title bar. Once you get out of full screen mode quit and restart and OS X should no longer restart the application in fullscreen mode. If that doesn't work, I haven't a clue. Certainly calibre itself has no support for full screen mode in its main window.

[eschwartz]

I meant maximized, of course.

calibre decided to persistently start non-maximized, rather it carefully takes up the middle three-fifths of the screen (and missing about an inch on the top and the bottom).

[kovidgoyal]

And is calibre remembering other settings, like say the setting to show the splash screen or the lsit of actions in the toolbar.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

I did indeed warn against assuming autogenerated tempfiles will continue to be there when you need them. That is different from relocating standard data (the program isn't going to autoclean that) to the tempfolder, a common ploy for data that can be safely cleaned up whenever Windows need more hard drive space, or unix gets rebooted.

(Also the permissions are fine. )

Well I suggest you locate it somewhere other than %temp%, unless of course all you're actually trying to do is to prove some pointless point or other.

BR

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

And is calibre remembering other settings, like say the setting to show the splash screen or the lsit of actions in the toolbar.

Yep, and in fact even the main window geometry -- except when it is maximized.

[kovidgoyal]

That's just odd

[theducks]

I have seen Windows Accessibility tools cause odd things I inadvertantly activated one )

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

That's just odd

That's what I thought.

Originally Posted by theducks

I have seen Windows Accessibility tools cause odd things I inadvertantly activated one )

Well, I haven't inadvertently activated any Accessibility tools (and I definitely didn't deliberately do so).

[McHunter]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Well, I haven't inadvertently activated any Accessibility tools (and I definitely didn't deliberately do so).

Hmmmm, has there perhaps something set in the properties of the file, so that it starts the window in "maxi" mode?

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by McHunter

Hmmmm, has there perhaps something set in the properties of the file, so that it starts the window in "maxi" mode?

The problem is it will not start in maximized mode.

[McHunter]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

The problem is it will not start in maximized mode.

Have You tryed to set it there auf maximode?

[theducks]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

The problem is it will not start in maximized mode.

FWIW
Calibre seems to ignore that startup screen properties on XP (V2.0)> It will start Minimized

[McHunter]

Originally Posted by theducks

FWIW
Calibre seems to ignore that startup screen properties on XP (V2.0)> It will start Minimized

Are you SURE that you haven nothing running what confuses Calibre so (i.e. tools, "optimirer", services or something similar) perhaps some addon or plugin?

[theducks]

Originally Posted by McHunter

Are you SURE that you haven nothing running what confuses Calibre so (i.e. tools, "optimirer", services or something similar) perhaps some addon or plugin?

Weird

I have a Quick Launch that opens Full screen
and the desktop shortcut does not

[BetterRed]

@eschwartz - Firstly, I normally start calibre from a pinned task bar icon, the start window is always what it was when I closed calibre - normally full width, 3/4 height, at top of screen.

I created a fresh desktop shortcut and changed the Properties->Shortcut->Run property as follows

I set it to Maximised, calibre started at its default window size!
I set it to Normal, calibre started started in a full screen window!
I set it to Minimised, it started with no window, when I clicked the task bar icon, calibre came up a full screen window - makes sense that was the last used.

I went through that same sequence (Maximised, Normal, Minimised) and got a different result. Maximised was full screen, Normal was default size, and Minimised came up in my full width, 3/4 height, last used window size !!

In other words, I can reproduce the 'erratic' behaviour you are reporting.

I did the same thing with fresh desktop shortcuts for firefox, chrome, xplorer², evernote, conemu and PDF XChange - the setting of Properties->Shortcut->Run behaved as I one would expect, Maximised started in a full screen window, Normal started in default (or last used), Minimised would expand to default (or last used).

Seems to me that the 'problem' is peculiar to calibre.

BR