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Restoring a Window’s Geometry

How to save & restore window geometry.

This document describes how to save and restore a window’s geometry using the geometry properties. On Windows, this is basically storing the result of geometry() and calling setGeometry() in the next session before calling show() .

On X11, this might not work because an invisible window does not have a frame yet. The window manager will decorate the window later. When this happens, the window shifts towards the bottom/right corner of the screen depending on the size of the decoration frame. Although X provides a way to avoid this shift, some window managers fail to implement this feature.

When using Qt Widgets , Qt provides functions that saves and restores a widget window’s geometry and state for you. saveGeometry() saves the window geometry and maximized/fullscreen state, while restoreGeometry() restores it. The restore function also checks if the restored geometry is outside the available screen geometry, and modifies it as appropriate if it is:

def closeEvent(self, event):

    settings = QSettings("MyCompany", "MyApp")
    settings.setValue("geometry", saveGeometry())
    settings.setValue("windowState", saveState())
    QMainWindow.closeEvent(event)        def readSettings(self):

    settings = QSettings("MyCompany", "MyApp")
    restoreGeometry(settings.value("myWidget/geometry").toByteArray())
    restoreState(settings.value("myWidget/windowState").toByteArray())

Another solution is to store both pos() and size() and to restore the geometry using resize() and move() before calling show() , as demonstrated in the Application example.