X-Plane 12: G1000 pop-out window won’t fit Realsimgear panel (bezels won’t hide)

Re: X-Plane 12: G1000 pop-out window won’t fit Realsimgear panel (bezels won’t hide)

Yep — what you’re seeing is pretty typical in XP12: the G1000 “pop-out” is still the full instrument window, and in many cases X‑Plane simply won’t let you crop/resize it past a minimum that includes the bezel area. So it “snaps back” because you’re hitting the minimum bounds the sim enforces for that popup window.

A few practical things to try (in order), since sometimes one of these is the whole story:

1) Make sure you’re resizing the popup from the correct edge/corner
On some systems the grab area is picky. Try:

• Pop the PFD/MFD out
• Move it to a normal monitor first (not immediately onto the RSG screen)
• Resize using a corner drag, not just the side
• Then move it onto the RSG display and fine-tune

If you try to resize while it’s already sitting on a small auxiliary display, it can behave like it’s “fighting you” and snapping back.

2) Check Windows display scaling on the Realsimgear monitor
If the RSG screen (or whichever display you’re placing it on) is running any scaling other than 100%, popup sizing can get weird fast. The symptom is exactly what you described: you resize, it looks close, then it jumps back like it hit a hard limit.

Quick test:

• Temporarily set that display’s scaling to 100%
• Log out/in (or reboot) so Windows actually applies it cleanly
• Try the popup sizing again

3) Run X-Plane in windowed mode just for setup
This is another one that changes popup behavior. Go windowed, set up the popouts and positioning, then go back to your preferred mode.

4) About the “output-preferences-misc” trail
You’re not crazy — the old “edit X/Y coordinates in a preferences text file” trick tends to get repeated, but it’s not consistent in XP12 and often doesn’t exist in the place people say it does (or the sim rewrites it on exit anyway). So the fact you didn’t find those coordinates doesn’t surprise me.

5) Reality check: some aircraft popouts simply aren’t bezel-less
Even though the Seminole’s G1000 will pop out, that doesn’t automatically mean it supports a “glass only” view that fits hardware bezels. Some setups rely on the hardware vendor’s integration/plugin to provide a cropped view, and the default X‑Plane popup alone may always include the bezel area.

That part depends heavily on whether you’re using any Realsimgear software/plugin with XP12, or you’re strictly trying to do it with stock popouts.

A couple quick questions so I don’t send you down the wrong rabbit hole:

• Are you on Windows, and is the RSG screen set to 100% scaling (no 125/150%)?
• Are you using the Realsimgear X‑Plane plugin/software for the G1000 suite, or only X‑Plane’s built-in popout windows?
• Is X‑Plane running fullscreen, borderless, or windowed when you’re trying to size it?
• Does the same “bezel won’t shrink” behavior happen with any other G1000 aircraft, or only the Seminole?

Answer those and I’ll tell you the most likely fix for your exact setup (and whether what you want is doable with stock popouts alone in XP12).