On 08/03/2012 03:12 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 02:48:05PM -0400, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> On 08/02/2012 06:21 PM, Ray Strode wrote:
>> <snip>
>>
>> I believe this happens any time the initial size of the window is
"close" to maximized.
>>
>> I don't know off hand if there's a way to turn that off out of the box,
but I don't think so.
>>
>> --Ray
>>
>
> Thanks for the response it gave me an idea that works. Seems if I
> alt-F5 to unmaxize the app's screen, then make it somewhat smaller
> and then normally exit the app, the next time it is auto started
> when I logon to G3 shell, it is NOT maximized.
>
> I see that with the current version of gnome shell, the idea is that
> an app should take up the entire screen when it is opened.
> Hopefully that will change sometime with the addition of a user
> parameter to change the behavior.
I don't think this statement is correct. Applications opened up for
the first time don't start maximized. I just tested this on F17
x86_64 with an app I've never used before and the window opened as a
normal size.
If I understand Ray properly, this behavior happens if the earlier
state of the window (or whatever size it starts with by default) was
close to maximized.
To test that, I just opened up the same app, increased its window size
to very large (but not maximized), and closed it. When I opened it
again, it started maximized.
I wasn't talking about apps opened the first time. I was looking for a
way to prevent apps from opening maximized and thought there was a
default gconf or dconf parm that could be set/reset to prevent it. Ray's
response led me to resizing the open app window to a smaller size
somewhat less than close to maximized, closing it normally and on
subsequent opens, it was not maximazed.
--
Regards,
OldFart