[Linux] Brackets window position not remembered between launches

[ingorichter]

The window will always open at the same position. Moving the Brackets window to a different position, quit Brackets and reopen will show the window at the initial position.
I don't know how the initial position is determined, but it looks rather odd where the window gets placed (see screenshot with position after launching Brackets)

[radorodopski]

Hi,

From what I could find, this is usually a job of the window manager in Linux, but some support from the application is also needed. This is all theoretical as the window managers say "this isn't our job" (and so does everybody else). I looked at the source of a few well-written linux apps and they all seem to have some code to:

• remember the position and size of the window (on app exit), and
• restore the size and the position of the window (on app startup)

I wrote a few lines of code just to experiment and it seems to work fine. I'm using a file to store the size/position in string format, and I read the file contents on application startup.
Using a file (in the application config directory) was the easiest method, with the least lines of code if I may say. If anyone has a better idea which isn't too hard to implement, I'd be interested to hear it (and it also has to be distribution-agnostic).

Let me know if you're interested in this and I will create a pull request.

[marcelgerber]

@radorodopski Even though I'm not a collaborator, I think you should put up a PR as this is a highly requested feature.

[0zguner]

This bug still exists.

[radorodopski]

@marcelgerber , @mustafaozguner , I would but I don't know how quick the Brackets team would respond. I submitted adobe/brackets-shell#483 about 4 months ago and I still don't have any feedback from them. I don't know how busy they are or how much they care.

I don't have much time these days as I'm working on a project of my own but I think I may be able to find my local branch and create a PR, given that someone from the Brackets team still pays attention to the github issues page.

[nethip]

@radorodopski Sorry for not being able to look at the PR you had submitted. Because of the huge inflow of issues/PRs, it is taking more time for us to look at all of these.

On the Linux front, we are not there yet with integrating CEF 2171 succesfully. Off late we have been hitting a lot of "Crash On Quit scenarios". All of this work in going in this branch.

https://github.com/adobe/brackets-shell/tree/jasonsanjose/cef_2171_linux

It would be great if you can put up a PR for this. We would be more than happy to merge this to master on priority basis.

[1beb]

+1 for posterity. Open maximized would be another useful option.

[zyberspace]

+1 (issue still exists)

[Corsseir]

2 years guys, 2 years and you still can't solve this issue.