[Linux] Brackets window position not remembered between launches

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Issue by ingorichter
Wednesday Mar 12, 2014 at 17:50 GMT
Originally opened as adobe/brackets#7174

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The window will always open at the same position. Moving the Brackets window to a different position, quit Brackets and reopen will show the window at the initial position.
I don't know how the initial position is determined, but it looks rather odd where the window gets placed (see screenshot with position after launching Brackets)

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Comment by radorodopski
Thursday Nov 20, 2014 at 09:25 GMT

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Hi,

From what I could find, this is usually a job of the window manager in Linux, but some support from the application is also needed. This is all theoretical as the window managers say "this isn't our job" (and so does everybody else). I looked at the source of a few well-written linux apps and they all seem to have some code to:

• remember the position and size of the window (on app exit), and
• restore the size and the position of the window (on app startup)

I wrote a few lines of code just to experiment and it seems to work fine. I'm using a file to store the size/position in string format, and I read the file contents on application startup.
Using a file (in the application config directory) was the easiest method, with the least lines of code if I may say. If anyone has a better idea which isn't too hard to implement, I'd be interested to hear it (and it also has to be distribution-agnostic).

Let me know if you're interested in this and I will create a pull request.

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Comment by MarcelGerber
Saturday Nov 22, 2014 at 13:07 GMT

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@radorodopski Even though I'm not a collaborator, I think you should put up a PR as this is a highly requested feature.

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Comment by 0zguner
Thursday Feb 12, 2015 at 15:21 GMT

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This bug still exists.

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Comment by radorodopski
Monday Mar 09, 2015 at 21:47 GMT

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@MarcelGerber ,@mustafaozguner , I would but I don't know how quick the Brackets team would respond. I submitted adobe/brackets-shell#483 about 4 months ago and I still don't have any feedback from them. I don't know how busy they are or how much they care.

I don't have much time these days as I'm working on a project of my own but I think I may be able to find my local branch and create a PR, given that someone from the Brackets team still pays attention to the github issues page.

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Comment by nethip
Wednesday Mar 11, 2015 at 08:29 GMT

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@radorodopski Sorry for not being able to look at the PR you had submitted. Because of the huge inflow of issues/PRs, it is taking more time for us to look at all of these.

On the Linux front, we are not there yet with integrating CEF 2171 succesfully. Off late we have been hitting a lot of "Crash On Quit scenarios". All of this work in going in this branch.

https://github.com/adobe/brackets-shell/tree/jasonsanjose/cef_2171_linux

It would be great if you can put up a PR for this. We would be more than happy to merge this to master on priority basis.

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Comment by 1beb
Wednesday May 13, 2015 at 23:16 GMT

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+1 for posterity. Open maximized would be another useful option.

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Comment by zyberspace
Wednesday Jan 13, 2016 at 04:51 GMT

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+1 (issue still exists)

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Comment by Corsseir
Tuesday Mar 22, 2016 at 18:30 GMT

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2 years guys, 2 years and you still can't solve this issue.

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Comment by xfg
Friday Apr 29, 2016 at 22:06 GMT

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+1

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Comment by hazeray
Monday Mar 20, 2017 at 16:00 GMT

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this is still a thing (ubuntu 16.04)

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Comment by abrahammurciano
Wednesday May 10, 2017 at 19:13 GMT

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3 years and 2 months... that's 1200 days where no one has done anything about this 👎

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Comment by abrahammurciano
Wednesday May 10, 2017 at 20:12 GMT

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I found that this command "wmctrl -r Brackets -b add,maximized_horz,maximized_vert" will maximise the window. I'm sure it can be adjusted to do anything else you need it to... If there was a way to automatically run this command when the program opens, that would make brackets maximise on open... Which is what I particularly want. If there is any way to do this, can someone let me know?

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Comment by abrahammurciano
Tuesday May 16, 2017 at 12:35 GMT

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I made a script that will open Brackets maximised. It's not the best solution, but if (like me) you want brackets to open maximised, just use my script.
If not, you can customise the script to do whatever you want

Gist
AskUbuntu

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Comment by kenstuddy
Monday Oct 16, 2017 at 04:22 GMT

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Still having this issue on Ubuntu 16.04 with Xfce4.12 DE.

Edit: To solve this on Ubuntu 16.04 with Xfce4 DE (the above solution did not work for me because I use Xfce4), follow this guide here: https://askubuntu.com/a/27833/475697 and then replace the code in file maximize.ds with this code: https://pastebin.com/VRpx9ghM

The benefit of the solution I found is that you don't need a script for launching Brackets, you simply start Brackets like normal and it will launch maximized. Since this issue does not happen on Windows and I am guessing does not happen on Mac although I have not tested it yet on Mac, I would call the fix I posted a good universal Linux workaround.

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Comment by joshmckibbin
Monday Feb 19, 2018 at 14:22 GMT

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This issue still remains and is beyond frustrating.