I tend to go in and out of full-screen mode a lot. I only enter full screen when I’m watching something. However, I somehow got to the point where “exit full screen” just gives me the same window, with no title bar. I can use alt+space -> Move the window down, but there’s still no title bar to resize or move. I can also alt+space -> Size, but once I go fullscreen again, once I exit full screen, it still takes up the whole screen.
I also can’t find any button to close/quit the app from within the app.
I just experienced this myself.
I found a workaround, though it’s not perfect:
Close the Plex Media Player and navigate to C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\PlexMediaServer. Open the file plexmediaplayer.conf within Notepad.
Look for the following line: “fullscreen”: true, and replace with “fullscreen”: false,. Save changes.
Plex Media Player should now run in Windowed Mode once again.
I suspect, but haven’t confirmed, that this ‘fullscreen’ value is tied to the TV Mode’s setting of the same name so you might be able to do this from within the Player’s UI directly.
I just logged into Forums in order to say the same thing. I guess since yours is May 15 this has been an ongoing problem for some time! (It’s now Sep 1.) I use Plex on my computer and do this oft-forgotten thing called multitasking. I have to be able to have the TV stream in one corner while I work on another part of the screen. I thought this used to work? At least I am able to Alt+Tab but then I lose visibility entirely.
Ultimately if I want the added feature of having non-fullscreen support I have to “downgrade” to the web version and access my server via Google Chrome. That works. Someone explain why I would want the desktop version, then, since the web version supports all the features through my server and I can always hit F11 while in Chrome and it goes fullscreen, hence supports both modes unlike the desktop app which only seems to support fullscreen mode.
I’ve had the same problem with my Plex Media Player (Windows 10) for a few weeks now. No idea what caused this to glitch out as it used to be perfectly fine. Changing the fullscreen value to “false” made all the difference.
Though as @stimpy77 pointed out, my fix also resided in the /PlexMediaPlayer folder.
Many thanks! This has been an ongoing problem for me for months, on 3 different computers. It even continues after uninstall/re-install. Only 2 things I can think of they have in common. All 3 are dual monitor, not identical monitors. All are Win 10.
The only fix I have found for this problem is to uninstall, delete all folders that are for Plex in Program Files, Program Files(x86), delete all files within %temp% and Temp folders, edit the Registry and remove all keys that reference “Plex Media Player”(be very, very careful when doing this) THEN…restart computer and a fresh re-install of the app.
Then you will have your standard Windows controls and Title Bar.
But, if you go full screen just one time after doing all of the above, problem returns.
You are back to not having the Windows controls and Title Bar.
I suspect that there is a registry key conflict or error that is causing this. plexmediaplayer.conf editing never worked for me.
I have recently been having this same issue again, I have 3 monitors and I cannot move the player to another screen, close full screen mode and when I click the button to close full screen mode it changes monitor but other than that I can’t do anything with it.
Same issue here. The only way I can exit full screen mode is with a combination of ALT+SPACE and selecting MAXIMIZE after closing out PMP a couple times is the only way to resolve this. I feel like I am running standard configuration, Windows 10, 2560x1440p dual monitor.
I just had the same issue, where I could not leave fullscreen properly or move the window at all.
The fix for me was to change a part in "C:\Users\'UserName'\AppData\Local\PlexMediaServer\storage.json"
To be more specific I changed this "state":{"geometry":{"height":1043,"width":1666,"x":7,"y":0}
to "state":{"geometry":{"height":1043,"width":1666,"x":0,"y":0}
You can probably even set it to this, which will set the window to size to default on next application start "state":{"geometry":{"height":0,"width":0,"x":0,"y":0}
As I know, you can try to click the spanner icon at the upper right-hand corner of your browser window or simply right click, then click on “exit Full Screen” from the dropbox to enable you exit full-screen mode. Sometimes I use Ctrl+W to close the window at all. Or just clicking F11. Here is some advice about how to close the full-screen mode rocketfiles.com.
Also, try to clean the browser cache. Maybe the problem is occurred because of the workflow of your browser.
