Maximize on play still broken

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This deserves a new thread. This bug already existed in 5.4.3f1 and is still quite annoying. I learned to work around this issue by pressing the shortcut to maximize an Editor Window after starting play mode. However, new issues were introduced in 5.5.0xf3 and I think it might be a good Idea to list them again:

Bug Behavior in 5.4.3f1:

  • Maximize On Play does not work when the Editor is maximized
  • Sometimes when leaving Play Mode, the Mouse cursor disappears when hovering over the Scene View or the Inspector, Fixes itself when maximizing/demaximizing a window

Bug Behavior in 5.5.0xf3:

  • Maximize On Play does not work, even when the Editor is not maximized
  • Maximizing the window while Play Mode is active freezes Play Mode
  • Starting Play Mode when the Editor is windowed freezes Play Mode

In short, Maximize On Play is now completely broken. In addition to that, Play Mode tends to be pretty slow when not maximized since 5.4.3f1 for me.

Any Ideas, Suggestions? People encountering the same error?

2

The suggested command line argument

 -no-throttle-updates

Fixes the freezing and returns the behavior back to 5.4.3f1.

3

maximise not working on Lubuntu 15.10 either.

4

I don’t understand where I have to add the argument of commands - not-throttle-updates?

5

You’re adding it when starting Unity over the command line, depending on the location:

cd /your_unity_location/Editor
./Unity -no-throttle-updates

Or add it to the .desktop file directly in ~/.local/share/applications/unity-editor.desktop in the Exec= sections.

[Desktop Entry]
Version=0.0.0f0
Name=Unity
Exec=/home/test/bin/unity-editor-5.5.0xf3Linux/Editor/Unity -no-throttle-updates %F
Exec=/home/test/bin/unity-editor-5.5.0xf3Linux/Editor/Unity -no-throttle-updates %U
Icon=unity-editor-icon
Terminal=false
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
Categories=Utility;Application;
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/com.unity3d.kharma;

Default for Ubuntu would be /opt/Unity/Editor as the Unity location. I don’t know where they’re putting the .desktop file on Ubuntu, it may be either in ~/.local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications (where you would need to edit it with sudo rights).

6

Thank you!!

7

Confirmed that this is still an issue in 5.5.0xp1 on ArchLinux. Maximize on Play is not working.

Also, if I don’t use ‘-no-throttle-updates’, there is some significant mouse lag on the viking village.

Finally, sometimes the “ESC” key does not release the mouse cursor.

8

Works perfectly in Unity3D 5.6.0f1. Thanks for putting the work in to fix this!