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Spotify open in full screen - cannot access taskbar anymore - windows 7

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Spotify open in full screen - cannot access taskbar anymore - windows 7

Music Fan
‎2015-03-11 04:16 PM

I have Spotify open and maximised on my computer. However, since the upgrade, I can't access the Windows taskbar from an open and maximised Spotify window (i.e. Spotify is open, I move my mouse down to the bottom of the screen to bring up the taskbar and switch to another currently running programme... and nothing happens).

 

This is not a problem with my operating system, as this works exactly as it should when I have any other programme open. But if Spotify is the open, maximised window, I have to press the Windows start button to bring up the toolbar. I can't see anything about this in the settings/preferences.

 

Does anybody have a solution to this? It's really annoying when moving between different windows.

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Re: Spotify open in full screen - cannot access taskbar anymore - windows 7

Music Lover
‎2015-10-11 10:23 AM

 

Close Spotify, remove ~/.config/spotify/window_position.prefs file and start Spotify again.

Re: Spotify open in full screen - cannot access taskbar anymore - windows 7

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Garage Band
‎2017-09-28 10:04 AM

You don't need to delete ~/.config/spotify/prefs (if you do delete it then you'll have to reset login details, which is a bother).

 

Instead, just remove the lines referring to window position.

Re: Spotify open in full screen - cannot access taskbar anymore - windows 7

Music Lover
‎2017-11-27 06:28 PM

It seems the window prefs file doesn't have an effect on modern versions of Spotify for Linux. Instead, in ~/.config/spotify/prefs, remove all lines referencing app.window.

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Re: Spotify open in full screen - cannot access taskbar anymore - windows 7

Music Fan
‎2015-05-02 05:17 PM

bump

 

same problem here

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Re: Spotify open in full screen - cannot access taskbar anymore - windows 7

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Music Fan
‎2015-06-09 12:27 PM

 


gwilym wrote:

I have Spotify open and maximised on my computer. However, since the upgrade, I can't access the Windows taskbar from an open and maximised Spotify window (i.e. Spotify is open, I move my mouse down to the bottom of the screen to bring up the taskbar and switch to another currently running programme... and nothing happens).

 

This is not a problem with my operating system, as this works exactly as it should when I have any other programme open. But if Spotify is the open, maximised window, I have to press the Windows start button to bring up the toolbar. I can't see anything about this in the settings/preferences.

 

Does anybody have a solution to this? It's really annoying when moving between different windows.


Me too but I have this on a linux desktop using fedora. its very frustrating to work and use spotify
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Re: Spotify open in full screen - cannot access taskbar anymore - windows 7

Music Fan
‎2015-06-16 09:36 PM

The same problem on Linux (Fedora 22). The last version of spotify can't even be resized by regular window manager shortcts/mouse gestures like any other application. Extremely annoying.

Re: Spotify open in full screen - cannot access taskbar anymore - windows 7

Music Fan
‎2015-08-17 09:22 PM

I have the same problem.

 

Arch Linux, spotify-beta 1.0.11.131-2

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Re: Spotify open in full screen - cannot access taskbar anymore - windows 7

Music Fan
‎2015-10-07 07:15 PM

Same for me with spotify-1.0.15.137-1 on Arch

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Re: Spotify open in full screen - cannot access taskbar anymore - windows 7

Music Lover
‎2015-10-11 10:23 AM

 

Close Spotify, remove ~/.config/spotify/window_position.prefs file and start Spotify again.

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Re: Spotify open in full screen - cannot access taskbar anymore - windows 7

Music Fan
‎2016-03-12 10:34 PM

This worked perfectly! Was having the same problem on Arch. Thank you!

Re: Spotify open in full screen - cannot access taskbar anymore - windows 7

Music Fan
‎2016-06-14 03:00 PM

Where do i find the .confiq file?

Re: Spotify open in full screen - cannot access taskbar anymore - windows 7

Music Fan
‎2016-06-28 06:08 PM

Gracias me sirvio de mucho!!!

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