No almost-maximized, please!

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Sun Jan 17 16:54:28 GMT 2010


On Sunday 17 January 2010 16:42:41 Torsten Frey wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 17. Januar 2010 14:21:27 schrieb Dotan Cohen:
> > Lots of non-KDE applications (Zim, Thunderbird, Firefox) are opened in
> > almost-maximized in for me. They take up the whole screen (except the
> > panel) but have window chrome and the Maximize button shows that the
> > app is not Maximized. The problem with this is that if I click in the
> > upper-right corner of the screen, the really-Maximized app below gets
> > closed instead of the app that I see! Agghhh!!!!
> > 
> > How can I prevent Kwin from allowing windows to be like this? KDE
> > 4.3.4, Kubuntu 9.10
> > 
> > Thanks!
> 
> I assume you are using KWIN as your window manager. Then this doc might be
> helpful about the window-specific settings. Puuh, so many options :-O
> 
> http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdebase-workspace/kcontrol/windowspecific/ind
> ex.html
> 
> I just got it to force Firefox to open always maximised. Normally Firefox
> opens with the last used geometry.
> 
And then again, UserBase is there to help with problems like this.  The 
specifics of setting Geometry to your liking is just one of the topics on 
http://userbase.kde.org/KWin

Anne
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