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--- Thread: Solved remember window position on macOS (resolved in Kodi 21.0a3) (/showthread.php?tid=365042)
remember window position on macOS (resolved in Kodi 21.0a3) - Syncopation - 2021-10-19
Currently
Starting Kodi always results in the window placed in screen center.
Expected
Kodi should remember its window position and size from last session and retain both when closed and opened again.
Use-case
There are various scenarios where running Kodi in windowed mode is desirable over full screen. One simple example would be when using Kodi while doing other work on a large monitor. In that case Kodi will likely be placed in either the screen half or quarter. For users with this use-case as their only use case the current behavior is highly frustrating. There is just no good reason for Kodi not to remember windows size and position. Tried to come up with another app not doing this, but was unable to. Should not be that hard to implement (famous last words, I know).
See also:
- https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=360960 (same request for windows)
- https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=324599 (forum thread)
RE: remember window position on macOS - Syncopation - 2023-09-18
Kodi 21.0.alpha3 (20230908-4d639b82d1) resolves this problem: macOS releases are now defaulting to the "native windowing" system, see https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-omega-alpha-3/
Commit is https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/aa996bae9287acfa206308553a873773a44798c6