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Congratulations on Crossover 22 you Codeweavers wizards!

One change which is a bit annoying is the inability to resize the Crossover window to something arbitrarily small. In fact, the smallest I can make it is really quite large at about 2/3 of my screen tall and more than 1/2 my screen wide (my screen is set to 2048x1152). Is there some setting I am missing? If not, I wonder if you might consider changing the Crossover window's properties in a future update such that it can be resized to something much smaller.

I thought it might be better to post here rather than in a support request or email suggestion just in case another user might be able to clue me in to something I am missing that will allow me to resize the window. (Please note that while I am a dope I am not a total dope, I do know how to resize MacOS windows and can resize the Crossover window – just not small enough to suit me.)

Hi John,

Thanks for the feedback! We have been discussing making the window a bit smaller, but we didn't make a decision before the 22 release. Due to the changes we made, we likely won't be able to have it resize to a window as small as was possible with CrossOver 21.

I'm curious, are there workflows that you're using with CrossOver that make a larger window unwieldy? We didn't get any feedback about this while we were in beta, but now we're getting a few comments similar to yours so I'd like to understand more about the problem :)

Best,
Meredith

After an application/game gets installed and you see the “icon” within CrossOver UI you’ll find an actual “launcher” in ~/Applications/CrossOver

Dean Greer wrote:

After an application/game gets installed and you see the “icon” within CrossOver UI you’ll find an actual “launcher” in ~/Applications/CrossOver

Dean, did you maybe respond to some other issue in this thread by mistake? Because I don't think that relates to my report at all.

Meredith Johnson wrote:

Hi John,

Thanks for the feedback! We have been discussing making the window a bit smaller, but we didn't make a decision before the 22 release. Due to the changes we made, we likely won't be able to have it resize to a window as small as was possible with CrossOver 21.

I'm curious, are there workflows that you're using with CrossOver that make a larger window unwieldy? We didn't get any feedback about this while we were in beta, but now we're getting a few comments similar to yours so I'd like to understand more about the problem :)

Best,
Meredith

I don't think I'd describe the inability to make the window as small as I'd like as a "problem". I just can't get it as small as I'd like! For example, I often have a couple of Finder and other windows open in the same Space (or Desktop or Virtual Whosiwhatsis, whatever Apple is calling them nowadays) as the main Crossover application window. I used to be able to set up that Space so that I could see the entirety of all those windows simultaneously. Now the main Crossover application window partly covers all the other windows.

This is not some deal-breaking problem that is making me want to delete Crossover and spit out angry posts on Twitter! It just seems odd that a Window which often is mainly a giant white space with a couple of icons in it has to take up so much room in its assigned Space when through Crossover 21 I was easily able to make it exactly the size I wanted. I know I can close the window (red button) or minimize it into my Dock (yellow button) and I do those things sometimes. It's not a big deal! Just wanted to mention it in the hope that either I was missing some setting that would allow me to make the window smaller or to gently poke you guys to change the window properties in a future update.

Thank you for the reply, I appreciate it!

Hi John,

Thanks, it's always helpful to know how folks are using CrossOver!

Best,
Meredith

John M. Hammer wrote:

Dean Greer wrote:

After an application/game gets installed and you see the “icon” within CrossOver UI you’ll find an actual “launcher” in ~/Applications/CrossOver

Dean, did you maybe respond to some other issue in this thread by mistake? Because I don't think that relates to my report at all.

Verified and yes I’m referring to your thread.

What I’m referring too is you can use crossovers generated launcher apps directly over load up the UI. This still depends on how your using CrossOver.

I personally skip the UI entirely but I’m lightly in the minority here.

Dean Greer wrote:

John M. Hammer wrote:

Dean Greer wrote:

After an application/game gets installed and you see the “icon” within CrossOver UI you’ll find an actual “launcher” in ~/Applications/CrossOver

Dean, did you maybe respond to some other issue in this thread by mistake? Because I don't think that relates to my report at all.

Verified and yes I’m referring to your thread.

What I’m referring too is you can use crossovers generated launcher apps directly over load up the UI. This still depends on how your using CrossOver.

I personally skip the UI entirely but I’m lightly in the minority here.

Sounds reasonable to me, Dean. However, my experience has been that if I start a Windows application from one of the Crossover launchers it first launches Crossover and that makes the main Crossover window appear anyway. If there's some way to prevent the Crossover window from appearing during the launch of the Crossover application I'd like to learn about it!

edit: OK, so, I closed the main Crossover window and now I can launch Windows applications using their launcher apps without the Crossover window appearing, even if Crossover is not already running at the time I launch the Windows application. Good tip, Dean! I'd still like to be able to resize the main Crossover window to something smaller but it's nice to know I don't need to see the main Crossover window when I don't need it.