MacOS, full screen state is never remembered.
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Description
Is there an existing issue for this?
- This is a bug in RetroArch frontend
- I have searched the existing issues
Description
Full screen state is not remembered between application launches.
- Location of full screen space is not remembered. (I usually have RetroArch taking up the left-most space.)
- If you have a multi-monitor setup and RetroArch is on a secondary display, it will fall back to the main display.
- Launching RetroArch from another full screen space will open RetroArch in a small window.
- Previous, correct behavior It should launch directly into the previous window state.
Expected behavior
RetroArch should remember the space it was occupying and launch directly to it.
Steps to reproduce the bug
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Version/Commit
ff65ab18
Bisect Results
d90eba9
Present in the nightly version
Yes, this is reproduced in the nightly build
Platform & operating system
macOS Tahoe 26.4.1 (25E253)
Affected Cores
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Environment information
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Relevant log output
Contributor guide
First steps
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- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No source file or test is named. First reproduce the launch behavior on macOS Tahoe with RetroArch on a secondary display or full-screen space, then trace the macOS window-state handling. Done means the previous full-screen space, display, and window state are restored when RetroArch launches.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- c, macos
- Domain
- desktop, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100