Width on launch woes
I can't seem to stop MuseScore 4 from opening up with the canvas at full screen. Big point of inefficiency for me, as I work almost entirely with more than one application open, and don't want Musescore to take over the entire real estate. Is there a setting I can set? Using Musescore 4 on a Mac mini 11.7.2 Big Sur
thanks!
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In reply to bump by garyruschman
I should clarify: it's not literally full screen when I open the application--it's defaulting to my screen width for the wizard and for any score I open. I want to be able to control the width somehow when I open things up--I suppose my go-to would be the width of one page only, or maybe two, but covering the whole screen is definitely not what I want. As in the screen shots--musescore 3 opens up as big as I'd like it, the full screen coverage on ms4 is too much.
Is there a line in the pref file I could tweak?
In reply to I should clarify: it's not… by garyruschman
This is happening to me too. Very annoying.
In reply to This is happening to me too… by kvetch
If you uncheck Full Screen ( in View) you can resize MU4 the way you want. It should re-open the same.
In reply to If you uncheck Full Screen (… by bobjp
Good morning and thanks for the response. Sadly, full screen is already unchecked--it always opens to the full size and I have to shrink it manually. The home screen will remember as long as the application is open, but if I quit Musescore, it won't remember the resize.
In reply to Good morning and thanks for… by garyruschman
view>full screen is not the problem Full screen means the entire screen on the mac (obscuring the menu bar and the dock). That's probably why unchecking that menu item doesn't fix the problem. Full screen is what the green button in the top left of every Mac window does.
Upon launch, the canvas is sized to 100% of the desktop. Leaving only the menu bar and dock visible. That's what's driving some of us who like to work with multiple windows crazy.
In reply to view>full screen is not the… by kvetch
Indeed.
Having MuseScore remember, or allowing the user to set what scale they want upon launch on the desktop version would be a welcome touch. The less a computer program acts like it's a phone app the better, IMHO. I just upgraded my mac and now all the settings act like they are on an ipad--can't find anything anymore (shakes fist at clouds like an old man) ;)
In reply to view>full screen is not the… by kvetch
Trying to bump this one back to the group consciousness:
Is there some code that will allow us to change the launching wizard dimensions?
Dealing with multiple instances while I cut/paste from various scores into one on the regular, and this remains tedious. Perhaps there are others interested in a more desktop experience more than an app "only-one-thing-open-at-a-time" interface. Thanks!
In reply to Trying to bump this one back… by garyruschman
When I "Restore" to less than "Maximize"d and then close MuseScore, it opens at the smaller size. Of course, I'm on Windows, not Mac. Still I assume that it behaves normally for most users. The fact that there has been no activity on this thread for over a year suggests that it's not affecting very many people.
Good luck!!!
In reply to When I "Restore" to less… by TheHutch
I'm still having this problem. What do you mean "when I restore to < Maximized" ? Please describe more clearly.
In reply to I'm still having this… by kvetch
... and this is on a Mac
In reply to When I "Restore" to less… by TheHutch
Thanks:
Yeah I just checked this on my new mac laptop as well, and it's the same thing. I mean, computer makers are forcing us all to use computers like phones anyway, but view customization is decades old, I can't think it's difficult to integrate. I'd love to think it's a bug that will one day be fixed.
However...
I just played around with the default canvas size in the preferences. I've found that if I work only with one score at a time, it will remember the size if I set it to 149% or less. 150% and larger reverts to the whole screen when I open a score.
When I need to work with another score at the same time (this is perhaps the most common thing I do in the program), any subsequent scores open up to full screen, but still at the size I've set (the aforementioned 149%, for instance), so it shows two pages wide. If I get a minute to breathe, I might try to set up Musescore in my virtual PC to compare, but I'm in the middle of a job and have already spent too long typing here ;)