[1.1.68.632.g2b11de83] Wrong app size and no taskbar pinning

[agurenko]

Since latest update, Spotify now opens at top left corner with some pre-determined size and does not remember new settings upon closing. That worked just fine before the last update. In addition the open window cannot be pinned to the task bar anymore on KDE Plasma 5.22.5 (both xorg and wayland session)

[Erick555]

This is upstream issue. As for now nobody came out with downstream solution. You may report it here.

This is same problem as in https://github.com/flathub/com.spotify.Client/issues/179 and https://github.com/flathub/com.spotify.Client/issues/169

[agurenko]

Thanks, opened issue for everything there: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Linux/Few-broken-things-since-latest-update/td-p/5264045

[TiZ-HugLife]

It's probably better to roll back to 1.1.55 for the time being. The newest release is super messed up. I posted instructions in that thread for rolling back to the last Flathub release before 1.1.68, but I think it might be worth considering for Flathub to roll back to 1.1.55 if possible. I know we have a policy of pushing out the latest stable releases, but I feel like that's predicated on trusting upstream to not push out broken crap. Spotify broke their end of the social contract.

[Erick555]

Does anyone knows for how long snap hosts old versions?

[rowbawts]

Since latest update, Spotify now opens at top left corner with some pre-determined size and does not remember new settings upon closing. That worked just fine before the last update. In addition the open window cannot be pinned to the task bar anymore on KDE Plasma 5.22.5 (both xorg and wayland session)

Sorry to be off topic but what theme / icons are you using?

[agurenko]

Since latest update, Spotify now opens at top left corner with some pre-determined size and does not remember new settings upon closing. That worked just fine before the last update. In addition the open window cannot be pinned to the task bar anymore on KDE Plasma 5.22.5 (both xorg and wayland session)

Sorry to be off topic but what theme / icons are you using?

It's a standard Breeze theme with Kora icons :)

[Steve-Z]

Same window size and position behavior with Pop!_OS 20.04 and GNOME 3.36.8. This is the ~/.var/app/com.spotify.Client/config/spotify/prefs

autologin.blob="..."
autologin.username="..."
app.window.position.saved=true
app.window.position.height=1005
app.autostart-mode="off"
app.window.position.y=75
autologin.canonical_username="..."
storage.last-location="/home/steve/.var/app/com.spotify.Client/cache/spotify/Storage"
app.window.position.width=1920
core.clock_delta=-1
app.last-launched-version="1.1.68.632.g2b11de83"
app.autostart-configured=true

My reading of this file sees the height and width as being properly configured as well as the value "true" to save the window position. It seems the app is just ignoring this?