GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 121732
Gnumeric should remember previous window size
Last modified: 2018-05-22 13:04:59 UTC
It would great if Gnumeric could remember its previous window size when reopened. PS. Thanks for a great program :)
In 1.1.x and 1.2 you can set the window size in the preference dialog. (But of course this would need to be the same for all files.)
Setting the window size in the preference dialog is just mindblowing. Really. BTW, Gnumeric is now at 1.4.2 and *still* pops up at the same window position and at it's default size. Since Gnome has decided that it's not the job of the WM to remember such things most applications pop up their window at will, even if the user has dragged the thing to another place a thousand times. This is such annoying that I'm very short of blasting out a mass of bug-reports against 80% of all Gnome apps and dialogs which force me to drag and squeeze them around over and over. Applications that do not remember their window size and position and the position of their dialogs in 2005 just make me sick.
Evidently you have different priorities than the developers. But since you are highly motivated in this direction I am guessing we would entertain patches. But don't forget that it needs to work with multiple displays of different size and resoslution so simply storing position and size is a non-starter.
Just for your information, you should read this bug report to avoid doing this the bad way, if you ever decide to do it of course: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=243962.
*** Bug 379481 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 380087 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Heh, I wish I was a programmer. This thing keeps annoying me daily. As computer screens have increasingly higher resolutions, sizing up gnumeric on every startup becomes very straining. Who should I send beer to? :)
*** Bug 538238 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
"sizing up gnumeric on every startup becomes very straining" Who should I send beer to? :) Note that there is a preference setting for the startup window size (as percentage of the current screen). So you could increase that and decrease your annoyance.
*** Bug 603720 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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