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Associate III
May 12, 2025
Question

cube IDE flipping out

  • May 12, 2025
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This IDE has gone into some crazy mode where each window maximizes itself on the screen/. I've tried clicking every single maximize/minimize/restore button, closeing the app, restarting the computer.....

This worked and suddenly broke.

Is there some way to make this thing reset back to it's default state?

 

 

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6 replies

Associate III
May 12, 2025

Another screen

 

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CTapp.1
Senior III
May 13, 2025

Have you tried resetting the perspective (Menu item - Window / Perspective / Reset Perspective...)?

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Associate III
May 15, 2025

This did it, thanks

Ghofrane GSOURI
Technical Moderator
May 14, 2025

Hello @sgordon777 

First let me thank you for posting.

Could you please provide more details about the STM32CubeIDE version that you are using and your OS.

As mentioned by @CTapp.1 :Go to Window in the menu bar. Select Reset Perspective. This will reset the layout to its default configuration and if the issue persists try switching to a new workspace: Go to File > Switch Workspace > Other...

THX

Ghofrane

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AScha.3
Super User
May 14, 2025

Double clicking in free area on top of window doesnt restore it ?

here ->

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CTapp.1
Senior III
May 14, 2025

That's worth a try - it does normally. If it doesn't, it's worth trying to reset the perspective.

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Associate III
May 15, 2025

No, it didn't for me. Thats the first things I tried since I know that double clicking this border area can decouble windows.

 

I fixed it with "reset perspective" option above

matte
Associate
May 15, 2025
CTRL+M = Maximizie active View or Editor

The root-cause is as you said probably a double-click on a border area or using CTRL+M.

You can of course do a "perspective reset". But an easier fix (less impact on your perspective tweaks) is to hit CTRL+M again to untoggle maxmimization.