Bear Version: 2.4.3 (13442)
macOS Version: 15.5 (24F74)
At some point since the last release, Bear always starts up in full-screen in macOS. Reducing the window width is not retained between start-ups. It always reverts to full screen.
If you quit Bear and delete this folder on your Mac, does the problem persist?
~/Library/Containers/net.shinyfrog.bear/Data/Library/Saved Application State/net.shinyfrog.bear.savedState/
I checked but there is no net.shinyfrog.bear.savedState folder in the Saved Application State folder. The Saved Application State folder is present, but there is nothing in it.
I deleted that folder (Saved Application State) and restarted the app, but the full screen is still present.
Note that I put the Saved Application State folder back in place after testing. So it’s there but nothing gets written to it. It’s just empty. And yes, my permissions are set so my computer user account has full read/write access to that directory.
The problem persists after a macOS reboot?
Yes, the problem persists. As noted, I deleted the “Saved Application State” folder as there was no “net.shinyfrog.bear.savedState” folder. Upon reboot of the computer and restarting of Bear, it still starts in full screen. Also, the “Saved Application State” folder has not been recreated by the app. It’s missing. Don’t know if that helps in diagnosis or not.
Wonder if this is something that can be looked at. I have no saved application state folder in my file system.
I have not seen this problem and no one else seems to be commenting on this as a general issue so my guess is this is a problem with settings or other installed software/extensions on your mac.
I’ve been running Macs for almost 30 years. I’ve never known of separate software/extension that would adversely affect an altogether separate app. Not to say it can’t happen but of the countless set-ups and software through the years, I’ve never run into that situation. A corrupt settings file—I’ve found—usually only affects the respective app. Or perhaps a Finder file could become corrupt and affect a windowed app. I don’t know if you’re a Shiny Frog employee, but I’d be curious to know more about this.
On a whim, I thought…is macOS’s window tiling affecting Bear? So I slid Bear to the left, to tile it on the left side of my window. On restart of Bear, the window correctly stood in place and not reverting to full-window mode (I’d incorrectly started this thread with “full-screen” as the description, but that’s not technically correct. It’s simply the Bear window is occupying all of the screen space.) But then I moved the window to the right side, to tile it right. Well, on restart, Bear starts with the window tiled to the left, no matter where I position the window and close the app.
Strange that Bear is the only app that I’m encountering this issue with.
That’s interesting, thanks for pointing it out! I tested the behavior and was able to reproduce it with both TextEdit and Notes. It looks like macOS gives priority to its tiling system until you drag the window out of the tiled layout.
Unfortunately, this seems to be a macOS issue, so we can’t directly prevent it on our end. However, we’ll report it to Apple and hope they address it in a future update. 
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Awesome, thanks for acknowledging @matteo.