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[audiolover]

I have set the startup in options to "Media Server (starts out minimized)".
It does start minimized but after like seconds or a minute iit goes to full screen Mediacenter?

What am I missing?

[mwillems]

I have set the startup in options to "Media Server (starts out minimized)".
It does start minimized but after like seconds or a minute iit goes to full screen Mediacenter?

What am I missing?

When you say "full screen Mediacenter" do you mean theater view?  If so, you might need to make sure you've set the correct mode in the startup options.  If you mean something else, it might be worth explaining what happens in a little more detail.

[audiolover]

What I mean is it starts as server minimized but after seconds it opens full screen with, in my case, normal player view.
I find no setting to keep it minimized as server?

[mwillems]

Interesting.  If you pass the /MediaServer flag to the command line executable it starts minimized and stays that way for me, but I've also never had mediacenter maximize itself at random either.  Do you have any idea what triggers it to un-minimize?

[max096]

Are you using Wayland or xorg?

Might explain the different behaviour here. Not sure how JRiver does do the start minimized thing. But there is quite some difference between Wayland and xorg. Most tools (not talking about jriver, but other things like xdotool) that interact with Windows that are written for xorg do not work on Wayland.

[audiolover]

I will use  /Mediaserver as that seems to work.
I do not know what Wayland is, I use Debian Xfce.

[mwillems]

I will use  /Mediaserver as that seems to work.
I do not know what Wayland is, I use Debian Xfce.

You're not using wayland then.  It's a newer compositor/display server that some desktop environments or window managers use or support (Gnome, KDE, sway, etc.).  It's still new enough that the software support and tooling for it isn't as mature as the older X11 display server, especially because every wayland implementation is a little different so its a moving target (although pipewire will help with some of the current pain points). 

If you're using xfce you're definitely not using wayland and it isn't even on the roadmap for xfce development at the moment so you can ignore those issues for now.  Or maybe you can ignore them forever: I say this with affection (as a sometime xfce user), but I feel like by the time xfce gets a wayland port most of wayland's remaining problems will probably be solved :-)

[bob]

I don't think that there is any reason for it to leave minimized mode unless perhaps you are doing something with it via a remote.
I use xfce and haven't ever seen that happen either.

Instead of /MediaServer mode (which is perhaps not best for what you are doing since it suppresses dialog boxes as well) you might try starting up MC under the Tools->Options->Startup in Media Server mode. Then you just get a icon in the system tray that you can click on the bring up the full UI but which runs in the background to provide services.

[audiolover]

Ok, thanks, I will try that.

[audiolover]

It works now, I used the setting "start Mediaserver" form options/tools the first time but somehow it did not work properly. Now it does!

Thank you for your help