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PowellJ
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August 2, 2023
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Please fix auto-resizing of Zoom window when chat or participants is opened/closed.

  • August 2, 2023
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When I am on a Zoom call I have it set up on half of my screen. Whenever I open or close chat in a meeting the zoom window resizes and changes position. When chat is opened, instead of resizing the elements within the zoom window to create room for the chat window, the entire Zoom window resizes, adding on the width to display the chat. When chat is closed, the Zoom window resizes to the original size, but it's screen positioning is shifted left. Fix: Do not change the window size when chat is opened.

 

Zoom window sized to half of the screen: 

When chat is opened, Zoom window width increases to fit chat.  

When chat is closed, Zoom window width returns to original width, but stays aligned to where it expanded to the left.

 

Edit: Same experience with participants. 

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    rn-zm
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    August 9, 2023

    Hi @PowellJ interesting! And thank you for your input! I'm curious what version of Zoom you're using?

     

    I am currently running 5.15.6 with the current experience on macOS.

     

    Try updating to see if you experience differently? 

     

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    PowellJAuthor
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    August 9, 2023

    Hey @RN52_2! I am currently running version 5.15.3.  It looks like what you shared is the bigger half of the fix I am hoping for. It looks like your zoom window stays positioned against the right edge of your screen which is great! However, I would also like the option for it not to expand the Zoom window horizontally when the chat is opened. On my machine it expands the window to the left by 384px. I would prefer the Zoom window stays the same dimensions when chat is opened because I have my screen split in half or thirds and I often use the other half of the screen during calls. I'll add 2 screenshots of what I would like to happen when chat is opened.

    Zoom window is snapped to the right half of my screen.

    Zoom chat is opened, window stays snapped to right half of screen and does not expand to the left.

     

     

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      AndersonW
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      June 25, 2024

      +1 Bump.

       

      Please resolve this. This is my biggest gripe with zoom. This issue also occurs when opening and closing the participant tab also. It makes no sense that it shifts the window and breaks the windows snapping. 

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        rainest
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        October 2, 2024

        Adding my +1 to this as well. @RN52_2 has this been acknowledged at all by Zoom product management as a request?

         

        There's a similar request in thread https://community.zoom.com/t5/Zoom-Meetings/How-to-prevent-auto-resizing-of-Zoom-window-in-MacOS/m-p/55470/highlight/true

         

        This applies to both the Chat and Participants buttons, and affects both Windows and OS X. They open a sidebar that extends the horizontal window size, as shown in RN's video above.

         

        Pressing the buttons again closes the sidebars, but leaves the left edge of the window at its resized location.

         

        This is particularly annoying because Windows (and AFAIK, OS X as well) provide window management features that let users split a display evenly between two windows. When Zoom expands itself, it will overlap the adjacent window. Closing the sidebar leaves the Zoom window left edge at the same X position, with empty space at the side, forcing users to manually rearrange the windows.

         

        FWIW I am currently on Version: 6.1.12 (46889) Windows.

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        Evanly
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        December 10, 2024

        I've also always been driven crazy by this window behavior.

        The only way I've found to avoid it is to pop-out both the chat and participants windows.

        Once you've popped them out, if you close and re-open them, they'll again pop-out, rather than opening on the right side and moving the window all over the place.  

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        rbaccus
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        December 13, 2024

        +1

        This is not a standard MS Windows functionality and I am surprised Microsoft allowed you to do this since it breaks so many windows snapping features.

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          aaiqbal
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          September 19, 2025

          Zoom still has this problem, btw. It's especially annoying because when I'm talking on a Zoom call, I use a lot of keyboard shortcuts to move windows around so I can pull up notes or references quickly. 

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