More detail of Sevy72's fix--I found this at:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=598971
HOWTO: Run Blender in Windowed Mode - Method 1--Blender-Specific
Command-Editing
When you install Blender it creates two menu items: one for fullscreen
mode and one for windowed mode. For some reason, windowed mode has never
worked for me - even with the latest version in Gutsy - it always opens
in full screen.
You can solve this by explicitly specifying the position and dimensions
of the window using the command-line option -p. From the blender help
(blender --help):
Code:
-p <sx> <sy> <w> <h> Open with lower left corner at <sx>, <sy>
and width and height <w>, <h>
For example, I have a 1280x1024 desktop. I want Blender to open as a
1024x768 window in the top left corner of the desktop - with a little
padding. I found that the following options did what I needed:
Code:
blender -p 5 225 1024 768
What these options are saying:
* I want the left edge of the blender window to be 5 pixels from
the left edge of the screen.
* I want the bottom edge of the blender window to be 225 pixels from
the bottom edge of the screen.
* The blender window will be 1024 pixels wide.
* The blender window will be 768 pixels high.
You might need to play with these settings to get them right for your
tastes, which you can do from the terminal. Anyway, when it's open in
windowed mode - you can then simply move / resize the window as normal -
and even open multiple instances. Neat!
If you want to change your Gnome Applications menu entry for blender to
use these settings by default, simply:
1. Go to System / Preferences / Main Menu (in Gnome, not blender)
2. Navigate to Applications / Graphics
3. Right-click on 'Blender 3D modeller (windowed)' and select
properties, which opens up a window for you to edit that menu item. (It
sometimes appears out of focus below my other windows for some reason,
but you can select it from the task bar).
4. Change command to be the blender command with your size / position
options.
5. Press Close and you're done.
- Jelly.
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