Server Version#:1.25.7.5604
Player Version#:1.42.1.2926-415b0e14
Latest version of Plex for Windows app does not respect previous window position or size, It always opens at a standard, non-maximised size on Windows 10.
This is a change in behaviour from the prior version, which always re-opened at the previously chosen window position and size.
Server 1.25.8.5663-e071c3d62
Player 1.42.1.2926-415b0e14
Same for me, even setting the properties to run the window maximised it still opens in a very small window.
Thanks OttoKerner, I messed around with those settings and the override does make the window slightly larger but still have to maximise it every time its run as it defaults back to its original size when closed, this only started happening after the recent update.
How do you close the app?
The X in the top right corner.
My server is running on a pc under the stairs and I access it remotly from my bedroom and only use the desktop app to organise Plex as its smoother than using a virtual desktop, I watch movies via the Plex app on my TV.
So the desktop app issue is just an annoyance introduced in the last update for me.
Ah, so you are maximizing the window, but don’t go into fullscreen mode.
I can reproduce this, then.
Correct.
7 posts were merged into an existing topic: Black screen on all media after updating to 1.42.1
I wonder if the video playing issue could be moved into a separate thread …? The original issue here is about the window sizing problem. Thanks.
Is it related to this: Black screen on all media after updating to 1.42.1 ?
After reading this comment, I experimented with:
This is my workaround for now but it would be good for the original issue to be fixed properly.
Followed those steps twice and it still opens in a small window for me so just using full screen mode instead.
I’m also having this issue. Fully uninstalling Plex for Windows (and manually removing leftovers, including the folder at %localappdata%) didn’t help, nor did the steps proposed above.
I also checked if Plex for Windows was writing to Plex.ini by using notepad++, which warns you when an external program modifies the currently loaded file, and it was.
I renamed C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\plex and C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\PlexMediaPlayer to plex.old and PlexMediaPlayer.old. This got the player to start on the correct screen as opposed to off monitor.
I’d like to queue up with those having issue with startup window position, size and mode here on Win10.
Here is my scenario:
Usually Plex Player runs in windowed mode, with roughly half the size of an ultra wide screen (3440x1440). Actually I make use of one of Microsoft’s wonderful PowerToys, namely FancyZones, with one zone for the right half of the screen. But I guess, that’s an unimportant detail.
When watching, of course the player gets toggled into fullscreen via a double click.
Now, here is already where stuff behaved better until a few versions ago. There is a certain chance another double click will not return Plex Player to its previous window state (on the right half of the screen), but instead switches to windowed mode with a window filling the entire screen (aka maximized). It’s not that the window wouldn’t know its previous position, as a click on the window’s “Maximize” toggle returns it properly to the right hand half of the screen.
But it gets worse. At night usually while playing some video in fullscreen, the machine gets switched off by a sleep timer (software timer, so the machine is properly shut down. Real shut down, not some hibernation.).
Now, if Plex Player gets started again next day, it then starts in fullscreen mode, with the player minimized (only bar with thumb and controls at the bottom, but Plex window without title bar or widgets (minimize, maximize, close)) on the right half of the screen, but the size of the full screen. So it only shows half of the actual window… a bit awkward, with no window handles at reach. And yes, I can unfold the player, then double click it to get back to windowed mode.
Now, I do get that the position is probably forced by FancyZones (although actually Plex should know this position frrom last time), while FancyZones seems not able to resize it (probably because Plex Player still thinks it’s in fullscreen). And I wouldn’t complain, if not all of this was working just a few versions ago. So here on my system, it’s clearly Plex Player’s behavior which changed to the worse.
One clumsy way to probably fix it for my needs would be a command line option to force windowed mode on startup. But to be honest, I’d prefer to get the old working behavior back.
Same issue here after updating to the same version as OP. Installed update that was posted today 4/5/22 and problem persists there. Tried some of the same thing as OP with no fix found. When I open the app, it appears to try to open maximized, but then resizes to the smaller window on its own.
Yay! The update today has resolved this issue, thank you!
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