I’m on Mac and I’ve set
"create_window_at_startup": false
but Sublime Text still opens a new empty window on startup. Even when I launch the application by dragging a project’s folder on the Sublime Text icon in the dock, a blank window appears behind my procent’s window.
Can anyone confirm this, is it a bug or is there something wrong with my setup?
It’s working fine here. Do note that Sublime Text will restore any windows you had open previously by default, so quitting the application with a window open will have the same window open when you start it again. You can disable this using the "hot_exit" setting.
Thanks Benjamin, I’ve set "hot_exit": "disabled" as well, so that doesn’t seem to cause the issue.
I did some further testing and found out that it’s actually only on the first launch of ST after (re-)starting my Mac, a new blank window is created. Anyway, as this really isn’t a big thing I think we can put it aside. Thanks again!
I’d like to continue this conversation a bit, because I’m having the same problem, and not just after starting my Mac. I have
"create_window_at_startup": false
but every time I open Sublime Text, either by launching the app or by clicking on a file, there is an extra blank window in the background.
(Incidentally, I used ST for years without this happening; it seemed to start happening suddenly a few months ago…)
Any ideas? Thanks!
Yes, the extra window always appears in safe mode.
Generally, the extra window appears most of the time, but not always. It’s pretty odd.
I was just running it from the command line (/Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl), and then quitting, over and over, and the window didn’t appear. Then I opened a .txt file by double-clicking on it in Finder (Sublime is my default editor), and again the extra window didn’t appear. Then I quit and opened that .txt file again, and this time, the extra blank window did appear. And now the command line causes the extra window to appear consistently. Strange!
I get the extra window at startup every time, despite having hot_exit and create_window_at_startup both set to false. This started with the upgrade to ST4 for me.
I’m unable to reproduce this. Regardless of where I open ST from or what other settings are used it never creates an extra window at startup. Perhaps someone can provide a video of it happening?
Hi @bschaaf, I made a screen recording of this. It turns out that a blank window only appears when there are open windows on quit. I tried to demonstrate this in my clip.
Please find the recording here: www.dropbox.com/s/z26fadnie7ocudg/sublime-text.mov
My settings:
"hot_exit": "disabled",
"create_window_at_startup": false,
Did you ever get this fixed? I’m using ST4 and I’m getting it and it’s driving me nuts to fix. 
I’m running Monterey on an iMac.
He’s asking about the ST4 version/build number. You can get the build number by using either of the following
Help -> About Sublime Text ... from the main menu.Help: About from the command palette.The changelog for 4122 doesn’t mention anything about create_window_at_startup (assuming it’s broken). Does it happen in safe mode ? https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/safe_mode.html#
For me I wasn’t able to open it in safe mode by those methods. I was only allowed to do it by holding down “option” and clicking the app open. Booted it into safe mode and I have the same issue there.
For every file opened, a blank file opens behind it. Thanks.