Stop VLC from always maximizing

[verp]

Hello,

I have the following issue: Formerly (before the 1.1.0 update, I believe) the VLC window was, when opened, the size of the Video. So, if I had clicked on a 800x600 pixel video, the player would be larger than if I had opened a 600x400 video. I always liked this feature, and now it appears to be gone. Even worse, every time I open VLC it starts maximized, which is really starting to annoy me: I am multitasking, and every time I pull up a random video, I have to manually resize VLC to something that lets me view other windows.
While a set size on every startup (say, 600 pixels wide and 400 high) would be optimal, the auto-resize always did it for me. I have dug through the advanced settings, Google, and these fora, but so far haven't found any solution to the problem. Is there any? Otherwise, as much as I'd hate to, I would downgrade VLC...

Thanks,
verp

[VLC_help]

Auto max can be cured by removing %appdata%\vlc folder.

[verp]

Yep, that did it for me. Thank you

[khopek]

Ah yes this is so annoying! I'm on Ubuntu. Where do I change this?

[rogerdpack]

clear cache? http://wiki.videolan.org/Basic_Troubleshooting

[smurfmachine]

Question -

Why doesnt an install of a new version automatically delete this folder and its contents?
It removes everything else so why not this? A sensible idea to include that it should do that for the next revision methinks.
At least this fixed the constant resizing issue. Shame you actually caused this issue yourselves in the previous revision.

And you've finally fixed the "VLC wont shut itself down properly" problem as well. Which you also caused in the previous revision.

[VLC_help]

Why doesnt an install of a new version automatically delete this folder and its contents?

It should if you select "delete preferences and cache" during installation.

[smurfmachine]

this is STILL happening in version 1.1.5
and the folder you are supposed to remove to stop it no longer exists.
so how is it fixed if you cant remove the folder?

[VLC_help]

It should exist if VLC starts.

[parubok]

For Ubuntu users:
Remove folder .config/vlc/ in your home folder. Worked for me.

[344mWyNrQE]

This is a bug that always reoccurs when you open a video that takes up all screen size (for most monitors that would be full HD).

Deleting the config files every time is hardly an acceptable solution. The bug should be fixed instead.

[Self-Perfection]

I experience this issue for very long time on linux.

I found that it is enough to delete "geometry" variable in [General] section of ~/.config/vlc/vlc-qt-interface.conf to fix this.

As I'm savvy linux user I've automated the task:

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sed -i '/^\[General\]$/,/^$/ {/geometry/d}' $HOME/.config/vlc/vlc-qt-interface.conf

Pretty simple, eh

I have used this oneliner for 3 years already. I hope this bug would be fixed finally.