Quick Capture window keeps shrinking in height

Every so often, the Quick Capture window on my Mac suddenly shrinks to this height.

I increase the height to make it usable, and it stays the new size for a while even as I close/open it. Then suddenly (about twice a day) I’ll open it and it’s shrunk back to the same size. Anyone seen this? Is there a default size setting that I’m missing somewhere?

Thanks

Yes, I have noticed it going wonky. However, the main one for me is when I use the Popclip Drafts extension. Regardless of the size of the ‘native’ capture window, the pass from Popclip always ends up invoking a capture window that is extremely wide and not very tall, like an envelope. This is perhaps an issue with the extension config? If I then go back to invoking Drafts’ capture window via a keyboard shortcut, it is back to the size I manually dragged to. However, I have also noticed that the manual sizing can then go awry again at some point.

Probably a timing issue, I’ll play around with it and see if I can reproduce.

Looks like that Popclip extension uses Drafts’ “Capture Text with Options” Service. This, similar to the drafts://capture URL scheme, does not open the default capture window. It opens a new modal window of a specific size centered on screen. That is expected.

Thanks @agiletortoise but any idea what might be happening for those of us not using that extension?

That probably wasn’t clear, but my two replies were separate, and I was trying to note that @TDK_SA90 issue is different from yours. I will look into what might be going on for you.

Ah ha, that makes sense, sorry. Thanks for looking into it :smiling_face:

Hi @agiletortoise. Don’t know if it helps debugging the issue, but I’ve also spotted that manually changing the height of the window also breaks scrolling and I have to close and reopen it to re-enable it. Thanks

Hi @agiletortoise. Did you ever get a chance to look at this issue? Thanks :slight_smile:

I’ve never seen it and don’t have any other reports. :man_shrugging:

Do you run any utilities that manage windows on your Mac, or do automatic resizing?

Hmmm, I do use Rectangle which allows me to use keyboard shortcuts to snap windows to certain areas of the screen, but I haven’t knowingly set that to do any automatic resizing. I’ve just however found an option to disable Rectangle for certain apps though, so I’ve disabled it for Drafts and will see if that stops the weird behaviour. Thanks for the idea!