# Gramps always opens full screen **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [December 6, 2024, 7:01pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/gramps-always-opens-full-screen/6562 "2024-12-06T19:01:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Edwardc01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e274bd/32.png) [@Edwardc01](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/Edwardc01)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2024, 7:01pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/gramps-always-opens-full-screen/6562/1 "2024-12-06T19:01:15Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![emyoulation](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/emyoulation/32/67_2.png) [@emyoulation](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/emyoulation)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2024, 8:21pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/gramps-always-opens-full-screen/6562/2 "2024-12-06T20:21:05Z")
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](https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Gramps_5.2_Wiki_Manual_-_Keybindings) wiki page for the Fullscreen mode switch. You’re on a Linux but [macOS has an OS-level Full Screen setting](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/problems-with-full-screen-view-on-macos/3519) too. ---
**Author:** ![Dexterb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@Dexterb](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/Dexterb)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2024, 10:33pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/gramps-always-opens-full-screen/6562/3 "2024-12-06T22:33:13Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Edwardc01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e274bd/32.png) [@Edwardc01](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/Edwardc01)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2024, 6:32pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/gramps-always-opens-full-screen/6562/4 "2024-12-07T18:32:36Z")
Thanks, That was my problem. All better now!! ---
**Author:** ![SNoiraud](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/snoiraud/32/72_2.png) [@SNoiraud](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/SNoiraud)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2024, 7:37pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/gramps-always-opens-full-screen/6562/5 "2024-12-07T19:37:51Z")
The best way is to use the F11 Key to switch between full screen and window. ---
**Author:** ![emyoulation](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/emyoulation/32/67_2.png) [@emyoulation](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/emyoulation)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2024, 7:50pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/gramps-always-opens-full-screen/6562/6 "2024-12-07T19:50:39Z")
> [@SNoiraud](#): > > The best way is to use the F11 Key to switch between full screen and window I interpreted his message as saying that he changed away from Full Screen… but that was not remembered in the next session. ---
**Author:** ![Edwardc01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e274bd/32.png) [@Edwardc01](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/Edwardc01)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 4:46pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/gramps-always-opens-full-screen/6562/7 "2024-12-09T16:46:06Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/gramps/original/1X/2ac1e712b7adf612e31ca08a55419f4cf37c0158.png) [@system](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 4:46pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/gramps-always-opens-full-screen/6562/8 "2025-01-08T16:46:31Z")
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