I am a happy puppy with the performance of my new Mint running my Intel NUC HTPC, but ran into a weird bug/annoyance with the Spotify app.
The window controls were gone, no X no _ like i had done a F11, but nothing reverted that, the only way to get the system menu and such, alt tab into another open window (then the bar at the bottom popped up again) or when no other program was running even a CTRL ALT F1 to get a Bash command line, and pkill -f his ass.
Weird.
Some googling shows it is a problem that also pops up on other systems (windows 7 in this case) and there the solution:
Close Spotify, remove ~/.config/spotify/window_position.prefs file and start Spotify again.
Nope, no joy, the file does exist, removing it does not solve the problem.
But, removing the file(s) .config/spotify/Users/"username"-user/prefs will revert Spotify to 'first startup' and you can login again, and change your settings back to what you like, while still having window controles and all is good in the world again ;-)
Another post showed:
It seems the window prefs file doesn't have an effect on modern versions of Spotify for Linux. Instead, in ~/.config/spotify/prefs, remove all lines referencing app.window.
But for me that just did not do the job so i remove all of them (adding a '.x' behind the filename, to make it easier to restore if things get even more borked).
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