how to reset window size

Skaperen · 07-07-2022, 02:59 PM

i was running the pavucontrol app a tried it in full screen by clicking the center decorator tab in the upper right. that was not useful so i decided to go back but i clicked the close window tab by accident. i started pavucontrol back up and it went to full size. this time i clicked the correct tab button to change size but it did not change. i closed it and restarted it, again. i want to get it back to the exact original size, again. it must be storing the size somewhere but i cannot find that. does anyone know where it stores the window size or how to reset it back to the original?

camorri · 07-07-2022, 03:52 PM

AFAIK, there are two ways to re-size a windowed application.

1. Right click on the top bar, not on one of the buttons, you should get a menu, there is an option to resize. On KDE, move the mouse pointer around, the size will change.

2. Put your mouse pointer on either edge, top or bottom, click and hold, and drag. If you use a corner, you can change two dimensions at once.

If that doesn't work, tell us more. What desktop, what distro and release etc.

Skaperen · 07-09-2022, 01:47 PM

the problem is the i don't yet know what the original size was. i want to undo the jump to full screen size to get back to the exact original size. normally, clicking the center button, again, undoes the full screen size and goes back to the original. now, it seems to be stuck at full screen size. how can i get back to the original size and be exact?

EdGr · 07-09-2022, 01:56 PM

Edit ~/.config/pavucontrol.ini
Ed

teckk · 07-09-2022, 02:58 PM

What toolkit is that?
https://github.com/pulseaudio/pavuco...screenshot.png

Looks like there are different versions.
https://github.com/pulseaudio/pavuco...ree/master/src

https://github.com/lxqt/pavucontrol-qt
https://github.com/lxqt/pavucontrol-.../mainwindow.cc

If it is qt, I've had that happen to Qt5Ct and sqlitebrowser recently. The window size in the config looks like

~/.config/sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser.conf

Code:

[MainWindow]
geometry=@ByteArray(\x1\xd9\xd0\xcb\0\x3\0\0\0\0\0+\0\......)

I had to delete that line for it to quit opening in full screen. Some kind of bug. Been that way for a while now. I don't close it in full screen.

Skaperen · 07-10-2022, 06:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EdGr

Edit ~/.config/pavucontrol.ini
Ed

it has the full screen size. what numbers do i put in to get the original size which was positioned in the center of the display?

Code:

lt1a/forums/1 /home/forums 5> cat /home/forums/.config/pavucontrol.ini
[window]
width=1920
height=1038
sinkInputType=1
sourceOutputType=2
sinkType=0
sourceType=1
showVolumeMeters=1
lt1a/forums/1 /home/forums 6>

Skaperen · 07-10-2022, 06:06 PM

i tried removing the file and running pavucontrol, again. no change. it's still full screen. but this time the file does not come back.

Skaperen · 07-10-2022, 06:15 PM

i switched to a user that has never run pavucontrol, before. i started it up and it was at the small size i wanted, so i exited it. but it did not save ~/.config/pavucontrol.ini. starting pavucontrol, again in each user gets the window size that user last had. but the ~/.config/pavucontrol.ini file is not there for both. how can it remember the size for that user when it does not save the file?

Skaperen · 07-10-2022, 06:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by teckk

I had to delete that line for it to quit opening in full screen. Some kind of bug. Been that way for a while now. I don't close it in full screen.

so, maybe i am running into this problem. i do seem to have a case using three users where it seems to be saving the size (not sure about position) without file "~/.config/pavucontrol" existing. so it must be making the size decision based on something else such as what the sha256 checksum of the username modulo 16777216 is (just making up something weird).

EdGr · 07-10-2022, 07:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Skaperen

i switched to a user that has never run pavucontrol, before. i started it up and it was at the small size i wanted, so i exited it. but it did not save ~/.config/pavucontrol.ini. starting pavucontrol, again in each user gets the window size that user last had. but the ~/.config/pavucontrol.ini file is not there for both. how can it remember the size for that user when it does not save the file?

Did you look for the file that teckk suggested?

Another possibility is that pavucontrol is using dconf. Run dconf-editor to check. The actual settings are stored in ~/.config/dconf/user. This is a nasty binary file for all programs that use dconf.
Ed

Skaperen · 07-13-2022, 06:45 PM

i hate those nasty binary files for configuration purpose (i like to edit them with a text editor or automate stuff with scripts) or even for transient state values (i like to tweak those, too, or at least share them between the many usernames i use).

i managed to get the original size values by creating a fresh new user and starting up pavucontrol for the very first time in it. that suggests that removing ~/.config/sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser.conf could reset pavucontrol while also losing many other settings.