start blender maximized on X11 - finding screen limits taking window borders, title bar, panels & multi-monitor is quite involved - without this size if often wrong.

For sizes outside the screen bounds many window managers will ignore the requested size.

Also opening maximized was default with 2.49.

2 files changed, 25 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/source/blender/windowmanager/intern/wm_window.c b/source/blender/windowmanager/intern/wm_window.c
index caf4e2bd1ac..d8b987a196c 100644
--- a/source/blender/windowmanager/intern/wm_window.c
+++ b/source/blender/windowmanager/intern/wm_window.c
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
 
 #include "GHOST_C-api.h"
 
+#include "BLI_math.h"
 #include "BLI_blenlib.h"
 #include "BLI_utildefines.h"
 
@@ -442,6 +443,13 @@ void wm_window_add_ghostwindows(wmWindowManager *wm)
 		wm_init_state.start_x = 0;
 		wm_init_state.start_y = 0;
 #endif
+
+#if !defined(__APPLE__) && !defined(WIN32)  /* X11 */
+		/* X11, start maximized but use default same size */
+		wm_init_state.size_x = min_ii(wm_init_state.size_x, WM_WIN_INIT_SIZE_X);
+		wm_init_state.size_y = min_ii(wm_init_state.size_y, WM_WIN_INIT_SIZE_Y);
+#endif
+
 	}
 	
 	for (win = wm->windows.first; win; win = win->next) {
@@ -452,8 +460,18 @@ void wm_window_add_ghostwindows(wmWindowManager *wm)
 				win->sizex = wm_init_state.size_x;
 				win->sizey = wm_init_state.size_y;
 
-				/* we can't properly resize a maximized window */
+#if !defined(__APPLE__) && !defined(WIN32)  /* X11 */
+				if (wm_init_state.override_flag & WIN_OVERRIDE_GEOM) {
+					/* we can't properly resize a maximized window */
+					win->windowstate = GHOST_kWindowStateNormal;
+				}
+				else {
+					/* loading without userpref, default to maximized */
+					win->windowstate = GHOST_kWindowStateMaximized;
+				}
+#else
 				win->windowstate = GHOST_kWindowStateNormal;
+#endif
 
 				wm_init_state.override_flag &= ~WIN_OVERRIDE_GEOM;
 			}
diff --git a/source/blender/windowmanager/wm_window.h b/source/blender/windowmanager/wm_window.h
index 739ead27bdb..c4c64ed429f 100644
--- a/source/blender/windowmanager/wm_window.h
+++ b/source/blender/windowmanager/wm_window.h
@@ -69,5 +69,11 @@ void		wm_window_testbreak		(void);
 int			wm_window_duplicate_exec(bContext *C, struct wmOperator *op);
 int			wm_window_fullscreen_toggle_exec(bContext *C, struct wmOperator *op);
 
+/* Initial (unmaximized) size to start with for
+ * systems that can't find it for themselves (X11).
+ * Clamped by real desktop limits */
+#define WM_WIN_INIT_SIZE_X 1800
+#define WM_WIN_INIT_SIZE_Y 1000
+
 #endif /* __WM_WINDOW_H__ */