No restore feature from taskbar menu: problem when window is off screen

Description

After connecting to an external display, my github desktop window was off all screens. With other apps you can right-click on the taskbar icon and choose maximize or restore to put the window back on the main display. But these are not available for github desktop.

Restarting the computer didn’t help, and nor did uninstalling and reinstalling github. Eventually I solved it by clicking on the icon and pressing F11 to maximize. But even then, there is no way to access the window size control features.

Having a restore function on the taskbar icon would really help!!

Version

GitHub Desktop version: Most recent. Can’t read version number because no way to access help menu!!

OS version: Windows 10.0.15063

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[MitchellSingleton]

I think that I found a work around.

I edited the window-state.json file to this: {“width”:,“height”:,“x”:,“y”:,“isMaximized”:false,“isFullScreen”:false,“displayBounds”:{“x”:0,“y”:0,“width”:1920,“height”:1080}}

and then made the file read-only. This appears to prevent the window information from being saved and I don’t have to “fix” it again.

[shiftkey]

But even then, there is no way to access the window size control features.

As a workaround, the window location state is stored in a JSON file - you can delete that to get back to a happy place while we deal with the underlying taskbar integration:

If your GitHub Desktop is stuck in the fullscreen “loop”, it can be fixed by quite simply deleting the window-state.json file located in the GitHub Desktop folder. Mine was located at C:\Users(home)\AppData\Roaming\GitHub Desktop.