Is it possible to set Blender window size so it opens the same each time?

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Every time I open Blender it opens full screen even though it is in the custom size format. Is there a way to set the desired custom size so that Blender opens that way each time without having to manually adjust the window size?

Thanks for any help with this…

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Open blender.
Resize the window.
Press CTRL-U to save over the startup file.

Now every time you open blender the window should be that size.

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You can also launch it with the command line argument “-p <screen x> <screen y> <width> <height>” to run it with a specific size. I use this to make it launch with and exact size of 1280x720.

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Thank you skywolfblue…it worked perfectly. And thank you also dan-r though I dob’t know if I even know how to execute a command line argument…or where I would input it on windows.

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What does ctrl+u … invoke? because in blender 2.8 that shortcut doesn’t work at fixing this bs, and those working on this blenderd project still haven’t gotten a clue about providing such options, frankly programs should save window size+position on close anyway like the rest of the industry, while providing option to open at a default preference position +size is the where you set an option…

everything assbackwards in blenderf land it seems

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Saving startup file doesn’t work if you have multiple monitors. It also doesn’t work correctly for a single monitor because it’s always slightly off when you re-open Blender.

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Ctrl-U does not save the start-up file in 2.80.
You need to go into File / Defaults / Save Startup File

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Thank you, I wasn’t sure where Save Startup File was located in 2.8 and this does save the window state+size.

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Any way to get this to work with multiple monitors? Ideally I want Blender to open filling 2 of my 3 monitors… but I have yet to find a solution to this.

cheers

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You should be able to do this with the -p command line argument since it will treat all the monitors as one large virtual space.

https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/advanced/command_line/arguments.html#window-options

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why can’t it remember where it was started the last time… lazy development?

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It has always seemed like a bug no one has bothered fixing because it kind of remembers it if you save the startup file.

Also, I just tested and it is fixed in Blender 3.0!

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Solution:

  1. Uninstall Blender
  2. Use something else