I’m running Gramps 5.2.3 on Fedora 39 KDE desktop, everytime I open the screen goes to full screen which covers all navigation buttons and I have to close gramps to get back to other windows. Any help appreciated!
When Gramps does not remember your preferences between sessions, there is something wrong with your .gramps/gramps52/gramps.ini file. The file might have become corrupted or be locked (protected).
If you upgraded and Gramps encounters a bad gramps.ini file, it might be reading (and trying to import) a fallback version of that file from an earlier installation. And if you delete the 5.2 version, it will just try to import that old version again.
The fullscreen setting is under the [interface] section of the gramps.ini file. The default for full screen should be commented out with a “false” example:
;;fullscreen=0
Yours is probably “true” and looks like:
fullscreen=1
Open your .gramps/gramps52/gramps.ini file in a text editor, delete that line and save the changed file. If you cannot save that file with the text editor, then Gramps won’t be able to either. That would be an OS-level problem and you’d need to troubleshoot that.
Note: Look at the keybindings wiki page for the Fullscreen mode switch.
You’re on a Linux but macOS has an OS-level Full Screen setting too.
Thanks Brian,
You’re absolutely right!
For reasons unknown, my gramps.ini displayed fullscreen=1.
I edited the file as you suggested and the problem went away.
Well done.
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Thanks, That was my problem. All better now!!
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The best way is to use the F11 Key to switch between full screen and window.
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I interpreted his message as saying that he changed away from Full Screen… but that was not remembered in the next session.
Yes, that works. I didn’t know about that, in fact when I go full screen with F11 the Gramps screen covers the FULL SCREEN covering all navigation buttons that KDE provides. However when I F11 again it restores the original window. Thanks! Live and learn.
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