Window state not persisted anymore

[Christilut]

Since a while (maybe since Electron 11), the window state does not persist anymore. The json file is not created anymore so my window state resets every time. I tried giving it a different path but does not seem to work either.

  const defaultWidth = Math.min(1920, screen.getPrimaryDisplay().size.width)
  const defaultHeight = Math.min(1080, screen.getPrimaryDisplay().size.height)

  const mainWindowState = WindowStateKeeper({
    defaultWidth,
    defaultHeight,
    maximize: true // Doesn't seem to work, but does set isMaximized to undefined when window isnt maximized
  })

  // Create the browser window.
  win = new BrowserWindow({
    x: mainWindowState.x,
    y: mainWindowState.y,
    width: mainWindowState.width,
    height: mainWindowState.height,
    frame: false,
    resizable: true,
    fullscreenable: true,
    maximizable: true,
    minimizable: true,
    minHeight: 800,
    minWidth: 1024,
    closable: true,
    titleBarStyle: 'hidden',
    backgroundColor: '#222',
    webPreferences: {
      nodeIntegration: true,
      nodeIntegrationInWorker: true,
      devTools: ALLOW_DEVTOOLS,
      enableRemoteModule: true
    }
  })

  mainWindowState.manage(win)

    "electron-window-state": "^5.0.3",
    "electron": "11.0.2",

[ixaxaar]

Same here, specifying custom path or file prevents saving state. Also state is only saved on closing the app,

To fix this issue I took this code and modified it to my linking and it works well (for me).

I also added a win.on('resize', saveState); to save state on every resize event.

[Christilut]

Thanks, setting it manually does seem to work:

  win.on('resize', debounce(mainWindowState.saveState, 500))
  win.on('move', debounce(mainWindowState.saveState, 500))

Leaving the issue open because seems the default way with .manage() is broken

[codingedgar]

In my case the state is not persisted between updates of the app, I'll try the resize | move and see if it works better.

[raine]

I had to do:

const debouncedSaveWindowState = debounce(
  (event: any) => mainWindowState.saveState(event.sender),
  500
)
                                                           
mainWindow.on('resize', debouncedSaveWindowState)
mainWindow.on('move', debouncedSaveWindowState)

@Christilut's code assumes that the window is sent as argument to mainWindowState.saveState, but in my electron, it would get an object where sender property is the actual window.

[JaosnHsieh]

It works persistently on Windows and Mac on my side after I changed the defaultHeight to 600.

On my windows laptop this condition state.y + state.height <= bounds.y + bounds.height would always be false if I set defaultHeight to 768.