GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 149770
annoying window position / size handling
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
I use totem mainly for two things: Listening to internet radio and watching movies. When listening to radio, I usually have the window at the minimum size, which is what you get when you select any zoom level when there's no video. Now when I watch a movie, I usually do it in full screen, and when the movie is over, I quit totem with q. The next time I start totem, it starts with a window the size of the full screen. This is very annoying and also useless for both movies and internet radio: the movie is half off screen (because totem seems to put the window always at (100, 50) (or so). For audio I don't need such a big window at all. Then the maximize button, that would bring me to a state that is good for watching movies, for example, is not on the screen. And the view menu with the zoom entries is hard to navigate; well, because it's a menu. I should maybe get used to the shortcuts. I can imagine the following: If there is no video in the media currently playing, always make the window the minimum size. When I start totem with a movie after quitting it in full screen mode, make it a useful size, not full-screen-size-but-with-window-border-and-half-off-the-screen. Thanks :)
WRT to the problem of the fullscreen window size being used on startup: I notice that in totem_action_exit, totem_action_save_size is actually called before totem_action_fullscreen(totem,FALSE). However, reversing the order of these calls had no effect: the bvw->allocation wasn't changing. I'm not sure what needs to be done in between in order for this to be updated to reflect the window being un-fullscreened. Alternatively, totem_action_save_size could just look at the un-fullscreened size instead of bvw->allocation, but I have no idea where in the bvw implementation this information is stored.
Mass reassign.
I think this is a duplicate of bug 125903.
Marking as a duplicate. Feel free to open a new bug if the problem persists after having tried the changes. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 125903 ***
I cannot see how bug 125903 is any relevant to this. This is about starting totem after leaving it in full screen mode.
Well, I don't understand anything in the original report. Feel free to re-open if you feel that's wrong, but, please, explain concisely what you expect, what you get, and how you would reproduce the problem.