Stuck in Full Screen

[Ignotus]

Hello,

A while ago, Spotify decided that it should be in Full-Screen (taskbar not visible anymore) and I cannot figure out how to undo this. I tried F11 and Alt-Enter, but nothing seems to work.

Can anyone help me with this annoyance please? Thank you very much in advance.

Anna

[magherita · Accepted solution]

Install wmctrl if you don't have it.

Then pause the music and run "wmctrl -r spotify -b toggle,fullscreen" while spotify is running.

[sonance207]

This worked for me with Antergos/Arch:

Make your pref files look like this and restart spotify.

pref location:  /home/john/.config/spotify/prefs

storage.last-location="/home/john/.cache/spotify/Storage"
#app.window.position.height=768
#app.autostart-configured=true
#app.window.position.saved=true
#app.autostart-mode=""
#app.window.position.width=1366

[ultramelon]

Under Solus Linux (and probably other Linux distros) you can edit Spotify prefs:

 gedit ~/.config/spotify/prefs

end alter width/height entries to smaller values:

app.window.position.height=800
app.window.position.width=600

The issue appears when I set the desktop resolution to smaller (or equal) to values in Spotify settings. Real software development bummer, to be honest.

[douglasrizzo · Accepted solution]

In my case, wmctrl solved. However, you have to give it the name of the window you want to toggle fullscreen. You can see the name of the screen by using:

wmctrl -l

In my case, it listed Spotify as "Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird". Then I did:

wmctrl -r "Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird" -b toggle,fullscreen

And it solved it.

[maty_in]

This works, thanks mate!

[andrealmeid]

In fact, you just need to delete window_position.prefs, doing

rm ~/.config/spotify/window_position.prefs

on Linux and restarting the aplication.

[xxx30]

ubuntu 16.04:

ALT + F11

[MikeH2]

Linux Mint 17.3, this does not work. Spotify is in full screen and refuses to switch to windowed mode.

[DarrelAlex]

Linux 18.3 hit Windows Key, Main Menu comes up select any APP, taskbar comes up. Right click to close Soptify without logging out , or carry on using ALT/TAB.

[jooon]

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@MikeH2 wrote:

Linux Mint 17.3, this does not work. Spotify is in full screen and refuses to switch to windowed mode.

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I could not work around this issue with Alt-F11 either in Unity or Gnome on my Ubuntu installation. In Unity on Ubuntu you can hold alt and grab the window with the mouse and drag it make it windowed again. In Gnome this does not work for me.

I treat this as a bug in the Spotify client and it is tracked in our bug tracker and will be fixed eventually.

The only workaround that I know that always work is removing the window prefs and restarting the client.

rm $HOME/.config/spotify/window_position.prefs 

[brianzammit]

This worked for me.. Thanks a lot! 🙂

[Sjoerdadlp]

I had the same problem, tried everything, even logging in again didn't work. But there is a fix!

My problem was that the buttons where all just outside of screen-space. This means that if you click and hold on the space next to the drop-down menu's, and drag your mouse, spotify will move with your mouse.

Aka -- You are not in full screen mode! You simply cant see the buttons anymore because you eather switched displays, changed resolution, or made a mistake by making it too large. Dragging spotify to the left, and resizing the screen will fix this.

Hope this helps,

- Sjoerd

[MikeH2]

Sorry, this did not work either. I clicked and dragged all around the border. Still full screen. I -CAN- use Alt-Tab to change to other windows, read mail and surf while Spotify is playing in the backgroud. But I can do these things correctly in windowed mode by using Treacle and Pandora.

[skippaul]

I'm running into an issure on RHEL 7.1 where after upgrading to spotify-client-1.0.17.75.g8f111100-2.el7.x86_64, it launches in full screen mode and I haven't found a way to get out.  My quick fix is to launch spotify with the '--minimized' option: /usr/bin/spotify --minimized &

[MikeH2]

/usr/bin/spotify --minimized &

I tried the above. Got a string of errors about GPU and then it launched full screen once more. Phooey!

[mihk]

CentOS7 here, happened to me also after I changed my big monitor with a smaller one.
The config files are in $HOME/.config/spotify
I deleted that folder and the application started with its window decorations as expected.

[magherita · Accepted solution]

Install wmctrl if you don't have it.

Then pause the music and run "wmctrl -r spotify -b toggle,fullscreen" while spotify is running.

[fholst]

I got a situation were my Spotify window was invisible due to a size of 1x1 (width and height). The music was playing and I did not know how to stop that. I noticed the window title was changing with each song using:
wmctrl -l

So I could do something like: wmctrl -r Sting -e 0,45,62,800,800

Restoring to a window 800x800 nearly top left on my screen. Obviously a song by Sting was playing.

[burneykb]

Worked on Mint w/ Cinnamon 3.0.7. Thank you so much!

[MikeH2]

No. Music playing or music paused, neither do any good.

[MikeH2]

Did NOT work under Mint Mate 64 bit 17.3