All applications starting maximized

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 02 November 2008 16:22:14 D. R. Evans wrote:
> D. R. Evans said the following at 11/02/2008 07:56 AM :
> > I have no idea what I could have done to cause this.
>
> All right; I have fixed this: I went through kwinrulesrc and made all the
> entries look essentially the same.
>
> The cause was (I think) that I wanted firefox to always start maximized. So
> I edited the window-specific settings so that it would always start
> maximized. Since it's not at all obvious what a lot of the settings mean in
> the window-specific dialogues, I must have inadvertently somehow edited one
> of the settings that I intended to apply only to FF in such a way that it
> applied to everything. I note that nowhere is there any kind of warning
> that one can completely alter the behaviour of all windows while editing
> (one thinks) settings that affect only a single application. Nor is there
> any kind of warning when one changes a setting in a way that it affects
> other applications.
>
> Anyway, now FF won't start maximized any more, but at least neither do all
> my other programs. I have no idea how to make FF start maximized (I tried
> the obvious clicking "Maximize" in the settings available by right-clicking
> the title bar, but that just maximized the current session and had no
> effect on the start-up of subsequent sessions). There should be a "start
> maximized" option somewhere. Maybe there is and I just can't find it.
>
It *should* start up in the same state as you left it, which makes me think 
that you still have a setting somewhere (in systemsettings?) that is 
overriding it.  At the moment I can't think what it would be, though.  Sorry 
:-(

Anne
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