Boxee startup as windowed mode + music question

**TDD** · March 13th, 2009, 09:20 AM

Is there a way to force boxee to run in windows mode on startup? Within the resolution settings there was no windowed resolution option, so I set it to my native resolution 1680x1050... and it's frustrating having to hit "\" every boot to put it back into windowed mode... :S

Also, is there a way to make boxee list all music as songs, not by artist or album? I'd like to play all my music, not just one specific album. Maybe even a way to make playlists show up in the menu below artists or whatnot, rather then having to go to browse every time...

**lhartwell** · March 14th, 2009, 11:48 AM

I would also like to have an option to start in windowed mode. Since it crashes fairly often, it's easier to see what's happening when in a window rather than full screen.

**Magister** · March 14th, 2009, 02:32 PM

What options do you have in the resolutions settings? I was able to make it run in windowed mode on startup. Some of the resolutions said Full Screen next to them. Any that don't have Full Screen next to them have the potential to start windowed.

I did notice that when I switched from 1280x800 Full Screen to just plain 1280x800, it still goes full. But when I switch to a different resolution, such as 1280x600, it goes windowed. When I exit and restart Boxee, I start in windowed mode.

Running Vista SP1 Acer Aspire 5570Z.

Just for the record, I was experimenting by taking away the -fs tag in the shortcut to run Boxee, and with changing a value in the guisettings.xml, but they are all back to the original settings, and I can still start in windowed mode.

**Magister** · March 14th, 2009, 02:37 PM

I just noticed that you do need to have the -p tag triggered when you launch Boxee to start it in windowed mode. Apparently, it's tied to the profile. Just running the application from program files\boxee\boxee.exe will not allow me to do it. It doesn't load my created profile. But when I alter the shortcut to be program files\boxee\boxee.exe -p, and I have used my default profile to change to a different resolution, then it loads in a window instead of full screen.

Hope that helps.